This is about AMD not offering something that hundreds of thousands of people need from any next-gen card they choose to purchase, and something that comes standard on all Nvidia cards from the lowly 960 on up.
There are some pretty smart people on this forum, and for no one to say," hey stop!"" they can just add it to the pcb on the next batch of cards in Sept. don't worry" , by now......
well you know that sucks.
Thank God people are saying this. The card is labeled fury.... And that's what I feel for waiting for a company too incompetent to add such a feature. If the performance had been meh, I wouldn't have been mad. I would have bought a price competitive card.Again, you are missing the point entirely.
I don't give a shit about watching 4k Blu-ray Discs, a year from now, on any Ati or Nvidia card.
This is about the thousands of us that have 2015 4k televisions that CAN do 4:4:4 @ 60Hz at 4k....via a nice perfect little HDMI 2.0 port, and game at that rez, today.
It has nothing, at all, to do with HDCP 2.2.
The Fury X doesn't support any 4k television currently on the market at a Hz level above 30Hz. And that is a massive massive failure.
Stop justifying, stop rationalizing, stop fanboying. This is a fuck up. Period.
And this is coming from multiple people in this thread who were EXCITED to buy this card, myself included. It's a colossal error, a bitter disappointment, and there is no excuse. I would personally FIRE the group of individuals that made that decision if I were Su.
Pack your desks into a box and get out. Because you're too damn stupid to work here.
That being said, the 980 Ti is a great card that when overclocked delivers all of the performance of the Fury X, if not more. It just blows that the AIO version of the card is $100 higher. Which sucks for us, the consumers.
I feel bad for AMD, for the smart people there that had nothing to do with this mistake. One step forward, two steps back, always.
Myself, and several others now, have tried to explain this to you. You simply don't understand the tech, as you don't own a 2015 4k display that's capable of 4:4:4 @ 60Hz.
The Fury X is only capable of running at 30Hz on 90-95% of the 4k televisions on the market, due to said televisions not offering a display port. Not now, and not in the future.
They only way to get a 2160p image at 60Hz with 4:4:4 sub chroma is to drive it through HDMI 2.0, for those specific televisions (again, 90-95%).
AMD missing this fact or whatever the reasons were that drove the decision, has fallen into a major error, one that precludes those of us who are in the market for a next-gen card or two from every buying the Fury X. It also affects the "living room" Nano, as it apparently also does not support HDMI 2.0.
I can't make it any more simple that that, I hope you understand now why so many in the thread are upset.
What an utter pile of tosh. Clearly you don't understand much. DP 1.2 certainly can certainly drive 4k at 60hz. All you need if you have such a card is a converter to hdmi 2.0. By the way, do you know what colour depth does Nvidia cards support over .
Thank God people are saying this. The card is labeled fury.... And that's what I feel for waiting for a company too incompetent to add such a feature. If the performance had been meh, I wouldn't have been mad. I would have bought a price competitive card.
But no where in my mind did I think they'd ignore hdmi 2.0. Wasn't on my radar I didn't think anyone could be that stupid.
I'm just dumbstruck I really don't know what to do. Right now I went from 650-1300 of amd to like 330 gtx 970 nvidia? Maybe I'll get the g1 since I've recommended it to anyone hard set on nvidia.
I game on my pc on a monitor so it won't affect me, but it is a major fail to ignore the bulk of the 4k market, particularly gamers who play on tvs.
There's active dp > HDMI 2 adapters on ebay, listed 4K/60hz or 1440p/120hz and 3d support. There's several more incoming this year. But it should have been included on the card, I can understand leaving out the older DVI but not having a new HDMI 2 standard in a new uarch is a bad decision.
1. 90-95% of current 4k televisions do not offer display ports. HDMI 2.0 only.
http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2015/06/AMD-Radeon-R9-Fury-X-PCB-vs-R9-290X-390X-PCB.jpg
DDH, tell me where are they gonna put it on the PCB. There's no space on the compact PCB or even silkscreen for an external HDMI 2.0 chip.
None of those adapters will work, it's an extremely complicated engineering issue as people far smarter than I am on the subject have already said. There is no fix for this.
But I think it's important to state that the Fury X is absolutely the best value on the market for any monitor with a display port. We haven't seen benchmarks yet but at $649 for the water version even if it just winds up matching the 980 Ti it will still be the best option out there.
That's why I think so many of us in the "4k television as pc display" crowd are upset...this card is the real deal and we won't be able to partake in it, and are forced to now give more money to Nvidia to solve the problem. Frustrating.
So it is possible for an aftermarket company like XFX to simply add a chip to the PCB and switch to a Hdmi connector?
Is that what your saying?
I just saw someone link in the other forum the 'complicated engineering issue' in action.
But I think if you're running an older 4K HDTV without DP and it turns out that the AMD rep was correct in stating that Fury has no HDMI 2.0 you shouldn't get an adapter. Newegg has tons of GM200 in stock. Go buy one.
If it's accurate it's unfortunate for people using 4K TVs to game and I get using a 4K HDTV to game as that is the only real good use of them right now. Native 1080p movie content looks a lot better on a high quality 1080p plasma than it does upscaled onto a 4K LCD. But I think 4K HDTVs do serve a use for a couch gamer wanting that resolution.
This isn't an "older 4k tv" issue. This is a "brand new state of the art 4k televisions will NOT be coming with DP" issue, just for clarity. They all are going/have gone HDMI 2.0 and they won't be going back obviously (Samsung, Sony, Vizio, etc).
But I do agree with you, if the Fury doesn't have it...then it doesn't have it. And we have no choice and are forced into GM200 at a surcharge...it will actually cost us more to buy a matching GM200 with hybrid cooling...and that's where the anger is coming from.
None of those adapters will work, it's an extremely complicated engineering issue as people far smarter than I am on the subject have already said. There is no fix for this.
What? What would make you say such things? It's just a signal and adapters have been made for every different interface in the past.
They are available on ebay now, and coming to the US in Q3 (as per Accell's rep).
You can buy 4K HDTVs with DP. DP is superior to HDMI 2.0 in many ways, but TV manufacturers and that whole industry have never been good with standards.
Why be angry ? If you don't want to use the adapter with Fury then go and buy a GM200 card. You can get one right now, order tonight, and have it by Monday most likely and be gaming.
Or are you just waiting for official confirmation that Fury won't have HDMI 2.0 on Wednesday ? Because you'd rather have a Fury than any other card so you're holding out hope for HDMI 2.0 ?
If you don't want to use the adapter with Fury
It's not, read the thread. We have electrical engineers who have chimed in and explained that any "converter" will introduce additional lag and cost $100+ to achieve. So essentially that's a no go, permanently, especially if a competitor already has a product that fills the need. And it's months away, and it may not work properly with the extremely bandwidth intensive 4:4:4 @ 60H, and and and and. Many reasons.
You were shown that you were wrong and there are adapters now and more coming, so now it actually does work and you've just changed your mind - but - it introduces 'lag' ? And an electrical engineer posted here and showed how it produces lag ? I missed that post, where is the post explaining how and why it will produce lag ? Now that we've moved past 'There is no fix for this.'None of those adapters will work, it's an extremely complicated engineering issue as people far smarter than I am on the subject have already said. There is no fix for this.
90% of 4k televisions currently on the market do not offer DP, and that number is rising year over year.
What I'd like, and assumed I'd be buying after the good news on Fury X the past few days, are 2x of them in Crossfire, for $1300, with AIO hybrid cooling. For use on a Samsung 48JU7500 4k "television" that is on my desk and is my primary display.
Instead, if the Fury X does not have HDMI 2.0 support, then as you said it's GM200-only of cource, but to do that will cost $1500 instead of $1300, because the 980 Ti with AIO cooling goes for $749 each.
It was just a nice chance to flip to team red for a change, at a great price, for a great product. But due to a small error, something everyone at AMD clearly missed, it's not possible.
But yes, holding out hope that AMDMatt is an asshat who spoke without knowing what he was talking about, and the Fury X does have HDMI 2.0 after all.
As I've said, $200 is $200 Groover, we all can't light money on fire as you did with those Titan X cards. Some of us actually have a budget and have to be smart about our purchases.
I don't know whose more mad, the HDMI 2.0 4k tv guys or the DVI Korean 1440p guys!!!!
Why would we know in 24 hours?