The AMD R9 Fury was released in June of last year (2015) under a veil of controversy. Some large review sites were not given a review sample for launch which sparked questions about the AMD position and message they were trying to convey. As many of us know the new Fury chips aren't the fastest on the market but brought with them the first ever High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) implementation and was designed to take advantage of VR and DirectX 12.

The R9 Fury has been out for awhile and In this review we will be looking at one of the custom implementations the Sapphire Nitro Radeon R9 Fury. As the name suggests this is a R9 Fury video card using the Sapphire Nitro cooler and Sapphire original PCB design. The design goal of the Sapphire Nitro Fury is to be a cool, quiet and overclockable video card for gamers and hardware enthusiasts who want the best Fury card available.