AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

2464 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY +255%

7.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Oct 2010

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

1024MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

14

-

3584

Shading Units

1120

224

TMUs

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

224.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

7.168 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.168 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

448.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

151W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Barts

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

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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