NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X2 +72%

8.602 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

-

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Capsaicin

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT C9

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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