After nearly two years of waiting, rumors, hope and disappointment the AMD's Fiji architecture and the R9 Fury X are finally here. Not only does this pairing hope to compete against the best NVIDIA has to offer but it represents the best hope for AMD's graphics division as they move forward into the future.

While AMD may not have been leading the graphics race for some time now, if history is any indication, they are obviously willing to take chances on new technologies. For example, the HD 4000-series was the first to boast native support for GDDR5 memory and the now-standard 28nm manufacturing process debuted with the HD 7900-series parts. This time around it is the addition of an innovative High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) interface which is supposed to drastically enhance memory performance while lowering manufacturing costs and memory subsystem overhead.