AMD's R9 Fury X and its Fiji XT core have been the subject of hot debate since their launch late last month. While the Fury X's performance wasn't able to compete against NVIDIA's GTX 980 Ti in every situation, it made a good accounting of itself at 4K and proved that with good enough cooling, even a relatively inefficient architecture can achieve competitive power consumption numbers.

With the Fury X launch behind us, there are still three cards left to roll out within AMD's revitalized lineup: the Fury Nano, a dual GPU Fury and the standard Fury. Arguably the most important of these is the R9 Fury, which happens to be the subject of today's review.