AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (254W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY +366%

7.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Sep 2011

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

12

-

3584

Shading Units

960

224

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

224.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

7.168 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.168 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

448.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

254W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Barts

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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