Skip to main content

Bundles offer only option for Fury X buyers

AMD Radeon Fury X
Bill Roberson/Digital Trends
The launch of AMD’s Fury X GPUs hasn’t been quite as smooth as the company would like, with some reviews being far from stellar, issues with some publications being denied samples, and now there seems to be issues with supply. While that should at least mean that the cards are proving popular, allowing demand to outstrip supply in a marketplace saturated with competition is not necessarily an ideal scenario.

The waiting time for prospective buyers is different depending on which retailer you look to and which manufacturing partner you were hoping to buy from. As Phoronix reports, Amazon’s listing for the Sapphire R9 Fury X 4GB is citing a shipping time of between one to three weeks.

Think that’s a lot? Hopefully you aren’t an XFX fan, as its version on the same retail site isn’t set to ship for another one to three months!

Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming
Check your inbox!

At least this is better than what some other retail sites are listing the GPUs as though. Some, like Newegg are merely putting the cards as out of stock.

Although things are likely to ease up a little for the new Fury X liquid-cooled card when the air cooled version shows up on July 14, for now those wanting to try out AMD’s latest high-bandwidth-memory (HBM) sporting GPUs will need to do so with the $650 Fiji card.

Although it appears like getting hold of one is impossible right now, there is one solution: a bundle deal, which comes with a motherboard and RAM and possibly a CPU too. Most retailers seem to still have enough stock of the new cards to kit them out. Of course that is going to make this a more substantial upgrade than just a GPU, but it’s difficult to ever have too much power in your gaming rig.

Editors' Recommendations

Jon Martindale
Jon Martindale is the Evergreen Coordinator for Computing, overseeing a team of writers addressing all the latest how to…
AMD may have just leaked the Ryzen 9 7950X3D release date
A hand holding AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor.

AMD may have confirmed the release date of the hotly-anticipated Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but it doesn't look intentional. According to OC3D, AMD briefly published a launch date of February 14 for its new processors.

The launch date has since been removed from all listings on AMD's website, so this was probably a slip-up. However, February 14 isn't out of the question. AMD confirmed when announcing the processors that they would arrive in February.

Read more
AMD CES 2023: Ryzen 9 7950X3D, mobile Ryzen 7000, and more
AMD CEO Lisa Su delivering AMD's CES 2023 keynote.

AMD's CES 2023 keynote is over, officially kicking off the show (although, most of the major announcements are already out of the way). Team Red had a lot to share, including Ryzen 7000X3D parts, Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs, and new RX 7000 mobile GPUs. To catch you up, here's everything AMD announced at CES 2023.
XDNA and Ryzen 7000 mobile

AMD started off its presentation with a bit about its XDNA architecture, and critically, how it powers a new Ryzen AI engine in Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs. AMD has a full stack available, but it highlighted the 7040 and 7045 series during its keynote. The 7040 series goes up to eight cores and 28 watts, and it's built using the same Zen 4 architecture as desktop Ryzen 7000 CPUs. In fact, it uses the same chiplet design as desktop CPUs, just in different packaging.

Read more
AMD’s new Ryzen 9 7950X3D is up to 24% faster than Intel’s best
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su showing the Ryzen 9 7950X3D at CES 2023.

AMD is starting off its CES strong with the introduction of new 3D V-Cache Ryzen 7000 CPUs. Unlike the previous generation, AMD isn't restricting its 3D V-Cache to just a midrange CPU, and is instead introducing three chips that match most of AMD's current-gen lineup.

AMD introduced the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and Ryzen 7 7800X3D during its CES keynote today. The flagship chip, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, tops out with 16 cores, a 5.7GHz boost clock speed, and 144MB of cache.

Read more