AMD Radeon R9 FURY X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

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

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (148W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY X +119%

8.602 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 FURY X +42%

5173

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon R9 FURY X +100%

30

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon R9 FURY X +116%

65

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon R9 FURY X +100%

80

GeForce GTX 970

40

Radeon R9 FURY X

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 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

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

1664

256

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

8.602 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

148W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 XT C8 (215-0862040)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-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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