AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X +218%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

64

-

1536

Shading Units

4096

96

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.602 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

275W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Fiji

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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