AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY +66%

7.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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Radeon R9 FURY

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jul 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

56

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.168 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.168 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

448.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

275W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Fiji

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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