AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X +127%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2015

Sea Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

64

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.602 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Fiji

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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