AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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 R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY +181%

7.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

Radeon R9 FURY

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jul 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

56

-

1536

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.168 TFLOPS

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.168 TFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

448.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

275W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Fiji

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

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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