A quieter R9 Fury
Asus on Friday announced the Strix R9 Fury, and as with other Strix-branded graphics card, this one comes with a custom cooling solution sporting the new DirecutCU III air cooler. According to Asus, its Strix cooler keeps things 30 percent chillier than reference while being up to three times quieter.
The Strix cooler features two 10mm heatpipes that make direct contact with the GPU. It also has three fans with a new wing-blade design that supposedly offers a 105 percent improvement compared to traditional fan blades.
AMD's Radeon R9 Fury has 3,584 shader processors, 224 texture units, 64 ROPs, and 4GB of HBM memory. The Strix model has an OC mode that gooses the GPU 1,020MHz, compared to up to 1,000MHz for reference cards.
While nothing is guaranteed, you can probably push the card further. In addition to superior cooling, it has a 12-phase power design (up from 8-phase on reference cards) and high quality "Super Ally Power II" components to reduce power loss, decrease buzzing under load, and lower temps.
Asus didn't say how much the Strix R9 Fury costs or when it will be available to purchase, the latter of which is a big question mark for R9 Fury in general -- R9 Fury of any make and model are currently hard to find.
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