Here it is, and if you like tech, you will love this. It is small, has a very tactile finish and is probably the most unusual graphics card release to date, certainly pushing the limits of creativity.
The top plate is designed to be customisable, though it is the nicest to touch, having a soft touch feel to it.
Three display ports and one HDMI supporting 4096 x 2160 max resolution, DVI is dead!
Two 8 pin power connectors are required for this card, and a minimum of 750w PSU is required to power the card. Interestingly, the XFX website states the bundle includes one 6 pin to 4 pin power cable and one 8 pin to 6 pin power cable, neither of which were included.
The LEDs light up red with power usage, a really nice feature, and good for chassis illumination. The underside of the card is smooth and also a very tactile surface, a good job all round. However things started to go wrong with the AIO radiator.
Our sample had minor damage on the fins and on closer inspection, wasn’t an issue, but not what you would expect from any new card, let alone a flagship model.
The radiator is a nice enough design and we like the top cowls overhang which covers the fan nicely. The Fury X is short, a perfect mITX card as you will see later on. The Zotac GTX 980 Ti and the XFX R9 390X are considerably longer.
XFX AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 8.5
Performance - 8.5
Price - 8
Consumer Experience - 8.5
8.4
At around £550 in the UK we expected a whole lot more though. Maybe we are easily disappointed or expected too much, and the fact that our sample may have been from the B grade of stock doesn't help, but it also worries us. That's a lot of money, and if you received it in a similar condition as we did, you would send it back.