amd radeon r9 fury x nostalgia

[Alemia]

reading old reviews of the fury x. water cooling a reference card back then was crazy. anyone actually own one?

 

[Bryleeeaton]

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X was an innovation, being the first retailing graphics card to utilize High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). This enabled a very small PCB but the card needed a liquid cooling loop installed in advance to deal with its power consumption and heat. It is still an iconic hardware.

 

[theenglishlab]

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X was an innovation, being the first retailing graphics card to utilize High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). This enabled a very small PCB but the card needed a liquid cooling loop installed in advance to deal with its power consumption and heat. It is still an iconic hardware.

oh yeah i totally forgot about the hbm making the pcb so small

 

[TrasvisHead]

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X was iconic (2015): first with HBM memory, compact PCB, and built-in liquid cooling. It felt futuristic, powerful, and bold—pure enthusiast nostalgia from AMD’s experimental era.

 

[alinajoseph]

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X brings strong nostalgia for PC gamers. Released in 2015, it stood out with its liquid cooling and first-generation HBM memory, making it feel futuristic. Competing with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, it delivered impressive 4K performance for its time. Today, it’s remembered as a bold, innovative GPU that pushed boundaries.