AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

Lower TDP (165W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY +43%

7.168 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 FURY +9%

4736

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon R9 FURY +38%

25

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon R9 FURY +57%

55

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon R9 FURY +12%

70

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon R9 FURY

44

GeForce GTX 980 +36%

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon R9 FURY

52

GeForce GTX 980 +19%

62

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon R9 FURY +44%

144

GeForce GTX 980

100

Radeon R9 FURY

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Sep 2014

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

224.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

7.168 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.168 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

448.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GM204

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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