AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY +89%

7.168 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 FURY +107%

4736

Radeon HD 7970

2279

Radeon R9 FURY

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Dec 2011

Pirate Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

32

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

224.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

7.168 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.168 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

448.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Tahiti

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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