AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X +52%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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Radeon R9 FURY X

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

64

-

2816

Shading Units

4096

176

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.602 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

275W

950 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Fiji

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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