RussianSensation
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Well that seems like good news.
I hope this "issue" gets resolved soon. My GTX 580 is on its way out, requiring more and more voltage to stay stable at stock speeds, so I need a replacement soonish.
Really wish Fury didn't have only 4gb of ram, seems short sighted.
Be great if I can get another 5 years out of a card.
I would personally recommend that you change your GPU upgrading strategy altogether. What you have done should have been a great learning lesson when it comes to GPU ownership -- i.e., buy a new $500 GPU and keep it for 5 years but find it out that in 1.5 years from launch a $250 HD7870 is faster and in another 1 year a $300 R9 280X is 65-70% faster and then in by Sept 2014, a $300-330 970/290 is 2.25X faster. Imo, you would have been better off buying a $299 HD6950/GTX560Ti and then a $300 R9 290 /$330 GTX970 in late 2014. Instead, the GTX580 was barely faster than the HD6950 2GB (unlocked)/GTX560Ti OC, because back then all of these cards were fast enough and provided great performance. Yet, when next gen games got demanding, GTX560Ti/6950 and 580 became equally too slow. In fact, just 8% separates an unlocked 6950 and a 580 today.
Using the above, today you could grab a $280-300 970/R9 390 8GB and then in 2.5-3 years another $300 GPU (in fact you could probably grab a $350-400 GPU since you'd have some $$ from the resale value of the 970/390 card that can be put towards your 5-year mid-life cycle GPU upgrade). Over the course of 5 years you'd end up with a more satisfactory overall performance/experience. More optimistically, if you score a B-stock GTX980 for $370, and get a 2nd GPU in the summer of 2018 for $400, reselling the GTX980 for just $120, that would be very similar to buying a $650-700 flagship card now and running it into the ground by 2020-2021 so to speak.
The best way to see what happens to flagship cards vs. 2nd/3rd tier cards long-term is to simulate intense GPU workloads (or look at many old reviews because they all paint the same picture). The situation frankly becomes the same regardless as (all of them are too slow once overwhelmed). So really the ONLY to truly future-proof for 5 years is to buy a $300-400 GPU now, sell it in 2.5 years and buy another $300-400 GPU. Buying a late 2015 $650-700 GPU to try to future-proof for DX12 / 5 years (i.e., to late 2020) is not going to work well because this strategy has never worked. Not even 2 years has passed since we can have GTX780Ti's $699 level of performance in a $230 R9 290 or a $280 GTX970.
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