If you've built a gaming PC lately, there is a good chance that you purchased an NVIDIA graphics card and Intel processor, due to exceptional performance over competitors. Both of those companies make great products. Unfortunately for AMD, consumers have been ignoring their products for quite some time. Understandable given that the company's products over the last few years have been unable to keep up with the competition. Especially since the launch of Nvidia's Titan X and 980 GTX Ti GPU's.
This year, however, AMD has been roaring back to relevance and possibly dominance. It announced the value-focused A10-7870K APU and then the awesome 6th generation A-Series notebook processors. Today, the company continues on an upward trajectory as it announces the Radeon R9 Fury, Fury X, Fury Nano and the R9 and R7 300 Series graphics cards. All are DirectX 12 capable and Windows 10-ready. If you are an enthusiast gamer for 4k gaming and beyond, the Fury X is for you.
The Fury X is the first GPU in the world to feature High Bandwith Memory. AMD explains that Fuyry X "brings to market the highest GPU memory bandwidth ever, pioneered by a consortium led by AMD, High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) integrated on-chip delivering 60 percent more memory bandwidth over GDDR5 along with unprecedented 4096-bit memory interface. The Radeon R9 Fury X GPU delivers more than 3x the performance per watt of GDDR5 in 94 percent less PCB surface area, producing ultra-enthusiast-class performance in a mere 7.5 inch (19cm) board".
