Officially unveiled by AMD during E3 last week, we are finally ready to show you our review of the brand new Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card. Very few times has a product launch meant more to a company and to an industry than the Fury X does this summer. AMD has been lagging behind in the highest-tiers of the graphics card market for a full generation, depending on the 2-year-old Hawaii GPU to hold its own against a continuing barrage from NVIDIA. The R9 290X, despite using more power, was able to keep up through the GTX 700-series days but the release of NVIDIA's Maxwell architecture forced AMD to move the R9 200-series parts into the sub-$350 field, well bellow the selling prices of NVIDIA's top cards. The AMD Fury X hopes to change that, with a price tag of $650 and a host of new features and performance capabilities that will once again put AMD's Radeon line in the same discussion with enthusiasts as the GeForce series. The Fury X is built on the new AMD Fiji GPU, an evolutionary part based on AMD's GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture. This design adds a lot of compute horsepower (4,096 stream processors) and also is the first consumer product to integrate HBM, or High Bandwidth Memory, support a 4096-bit memory bus. Of course the question is, what does this mean for you, the gamer. Is it time to start making a place in your PC for the Fury X. Let's find out..