AMD Radeon R9 FURY X vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY X +281%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Dec 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

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

22

-

4096

Shading Units

1408

256

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

8.602 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Cayman

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

389 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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