AMD's Radeon Fury X: the new leader in graphics tech?

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AMD has revealed its new top-tier performance graphics line - Radeon Fury. Three different cards based on its new silicon, codenamed Fiji, have been revealed - led by the ultra high-end watercooled Fury X, due for release before the end of the month. Later on in the summer we can look forward to a slower, cheaper, air-cooled Fury along with Fury Nano - a small form factor iteration.
AMD's Fiji processor is effectively a much, much larger version of its existing 'Tonga' technology, as found in the Radeon R9 285 and the 5K iMac. It sports a mammoth 4,096 shader cores (a 45 per cent increase over its prior flagship, the Radeon R9 290X), along with 4GB of HBM - AMD's revolutionary, high bandwidth memory that sits alongside the GPU core, offering enormous improvements in latency as well as throughput.
Closely integrating memory with the graphics engine offers many advantages. In theory, memory bandwidth should be removed as a limitation (AMD tells us that there is no point attempting to overclock HBM for additional performance, indeed the option may be removed entirely) while the physical form factor of the board itself is significantly reduced, allowing for Fiji-based products like the upcoming Nano to fit into much smaller PCs.
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