Radeon R9 FURY 

The performance gap suddenly widens as soon as we start looking at lower resolutions; 4K vs. the GTX 980 Ti: -2%, 1440p: -9%, 1080p: -14%, 900p.

In addition, the card exhibits some coil noise, depending on the game and framerate, but it's definitely there, and combined, the two effectively overpower the fan's noise levels.

Averaged over all our benchmarks we see a 7% performance lead over the reference GTX 980 at 1440p, which I'd recommend as the optimum resolution for the card.

Sure, there will be lazy game developers that will fill all the VRAM up with unnecessary junk, but those games will be the exception, not the norm.

This means you can build a compact low-noise gaming PC for the living room that has enough power to play all the latest games.

In gaming, noise levels are very good, much lower than competing reference designs from NVIDIA.

NVIDIA's GTX Titan X is still 8% ahead, but the performance is extremely game dependent.

So if you are thinking about 144 Hz 1080p gaming, the GTX 980 Ti is the way to go.

With 40 dBA, gaming noise is reasonable due to the large fans, and the noise quality is also better than on smaller fans.

For any memory standard (including HBM), memory speed/bandwidth and power draw don't scale linearly.

It is complemented by a transfer of video memory from physical chips surrounding the GPU package - over 32-bit-wide data paths, each.

This is what necessitates a new memory standard.

Furmark maximum power is high, but this test is mainly to determine the power limit and to generate the absolute worst-case power-draw value.

Overall, AMD has caught up to NVIDIA Maxwell's power efficiency, getting close without beating it.

Furmark maximum power only reaches 270 W, which suggests that ASUS has not increased the board power limit in their BIOS.