The Radeon R9 Fury X, AMD's latest enthusiast-grade graphics cars, was released on June 24. Amidst stiff competition from its closest rival, Nvidia, which released five GeForce graphics card since September 2014, AMD aims to be on top of the market again by releasing its most powerful GPU to date.
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has 4096 shaders, 256 texture unit and a GPU clock reaching speeds of upto 1050MHz. The video card has 4 gigabyte of high bandwidth memory, a new high performance memory interface developed by AMD.
The Radeon R9 Fury X features a water cooler, a refined version of the one introduced along with Radeon R9 295X2. The new water cooler retains the closed-loop setup which makes it significantly quieter compared to Nvdia's coolers.
However, several reviews of the Radeon R9 Fury X's reveal that the water cooler creates annoying coil whine and pump nose even if the card is in idle. While coil whine is a common problem with GPU's, it only manifest when the video card is performing heavy loads which causes its coils to choke, according Digital Trends.
AMD added a series of LED lights on the Radeon R9 Fury X which gives its user the idea of how much load the GPU has. The video card has three Display Ports and a single HDMI 1.4 port. The absence of a DVI port could signal the end of AMD's support for this archaic display interface.
AMD announced that the Radeon R9 Fury X is a reference design only, according to PC World. This means that aftermarket variants of the video card like the ones produced by Sapphire or Asus will not be available.