By 2016, AMD's lineup above this segment was wiped out. The R9 380 took on the upper-mainstream GTX 960 to good effect. With AMD spending its R&D resources on getting the SoCs that power new-generation game consoles and the new Ryzen CPU family right, its discrete graphics lineup does not seem to be their highest priority.īack in 2015, AMD had the R9 Fury X to compete with NVIDIA's enthusiast-segment GTX 980 Ti, and the R9 390 series to compete with the performance-segment GTX 980/970, with the R9 Fury offering an interesting in-between value proposition. The Radeon R9 Fury X launched way back in June 2015, and it looks like you have to wait a little longer for AMD to launch its true successor. It's been a while since AMD's last enthusiast-segment graphics card. AMD today launched the Radeon RX 580 leading the new RX 500 series of graphics cards.
