AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X2 +110%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Sea Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 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

64

-

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 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

Malta

GPU Name

Capsaicin

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT C9

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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