The R9 Fury from ASUS, the 2nd most powerful GPU from the red camp under the hood of ASUS’ STRIX AMD line-up.
As with ASUS cards, they carry the signature red and black appearance. The 3-fan cooling system design handles the hot beast underneath.
The shroud on the DirectCU III system lights up as the card is powered on, 2x 8-pin PCI-E indicates the card is capable of drawing up to 375W.
At the bottom the heatpipes are visible, stretching from front to back.
Being an ASUS STRIX model, the graphics card comes with a beautiful backplate with the STRIX emblem on it.
The unit comes with the following output –
1x DVI
1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
Below is the GPU-Z for the card.
More details at the official product page.
Test Setup
Processor | Intel Core i7-5960X |
RAM | HyperX Savage 2x 8GB DDR4 3000Mhz |
Motherboard | ASRock X99 OC Formula |
Power Supply | Cooler Master V850 |
Operating System | Windows 10 64bit |
Benchmarks
Unigine Heaven 4.0
*NOTE : Details are set to maximum.
Card | 1080p (avg) | 4K UHD (avg) |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury | 63 | 19 |
ASUS STRIX GTX 980 Ti | 95 | 25 |
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 BLACK EXOC SNIPER | 57 | N/A |
PowerColor R9 390 8GB | 56 | N/A |
Metro Last Light
Card | 1080p (avg) | 4K UHD (avg) |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury | 96.5 | 36 |
ASUS STRIX GTX 980 Ti | 132 | 50 |
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 BLACK EXOC SNIPER | 90 | N/A |
PowerColor R9 390 8GB | 78 | N/A |
Bioshock Infinite
Settings are at
2 – UltraDX11_DDOF | 2 – Custom | 1 – 16:9 | 4 – FullHD / 4K
Card | 1080p (avg) | 4K UHD (avg) |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury | 136 | 50 |
ASUS STRIX GTX 980 Ti | 172 | 63 |
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 BLACK EXOC SNIPER | 110 | N/A |
PowerColor R9 390 8GB | 111 | N/A |
Shadow of Mordor
Settings : Set to ULTRA, V-sync off.
Card | 1080p (avg) | 4K UHD (avg) |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury | 105 | 45 |
ASUS STRIX GTX 980 Ti | 138 | 56 |
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 BLACK EXOC SNIPER | 80 | N/A |
PowerColor R9 390 8GB | 92 | N/A |
Grand Theft Auto V
Settings : Every option to the MAX setting available.
Card | 1080p (avg) | 4K UHD (avg) |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury | 41 | 21 |
ASUS STRIX GTX 980 Ti | 65 | 47 |
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 BLACK EXOC SNIPER | 41 | N/A |
PowerColor R9 390 8GB | 39 | N/A |
The Division
Settings : Set to ULTRA, V-sync OFF.
Card | 1080p (avg) | 4K UHD (avg) |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury | 77 | 32 |
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 BLACK EXOC SNIPER | 64 | N/A |
Temperature
Furmark Burn-in Test was used to stress the card. Fan settings are at Auto. Room set to ~25c.
Card | Idle(°C) | Load (°C) |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury | 55 | 80 |
ASUS STRIX R9 Fury (Full RPM) | 30 | 60 |
The fan hovers at 19% which is very, and running near silent and doesn’t budget as long as the temperature doesn’t hit the 80s. I noted that the fan only started to move one it hit 83°C of which it eventually increases RPM until 46% and maintain the temperature at 80°C.
Power Consumption
The stress was done with Furmark Burn-in Test. Power consumption reading was taken from the watt-meter, actual power draw by the entire system from the wall point. I’m using an Cooler Master V850 with around 90% efficiency and the estimated system power draw (CPU, not including GPU) during Furmark test is 80w.
Card | ASUS STRIX R9 Fury |
Furmark Burn-in | 352 |
Estimated Actual System Draw | 317 |
Estimated Card Power Draw | 237 |
While capable of 375W, the card on full load seems to run at only 237W as the entire system doesn’t even cross 400W wall draw.
The Verdict
The ASUS R9 Fury STRIX Graphics Card retails at around RM 3,000 – while the card is excellent, it’s not worth the price considering the performance is closer to that of an R9 390 card. I believe an R9 390X card could match the performance easily and those cards costs just around RM 2,200 range. The R9 390 in the benchmarks here costs far less, at around RM 1,800 range.
If you have intention to be powered by the red camp (AMD) GPUs then my take is you should look at R9 390 / R9 390X cards. They’re one of the best performers at that price range, with memory capacity advantage over Nvidia’s GTX 980 cards too.