AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

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

1984 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY +163%

7.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

20

3584

Shading Units

1600

224

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

224.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

7.168 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.168 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

448.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Cypress

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

175W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

2

AMD Radeon R7 450 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

4

Intel Arc A380 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

6

AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

7

AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs ATI Radeon HD 3570

8

AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

9

AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs AMD Radeon HD 8510 OEM

10

AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

Related News

1

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

2

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

3

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

4

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

5

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

6

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

7

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

8

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

10

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage