AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY +255%

7.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

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Radeon R9 FURY

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jul 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

56

1120

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.168 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.168 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

448.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Fiji

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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