AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X2 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 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

2976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY X2 +326%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X2

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

64

Compute Units

14

-

4096

Shading Units

1120

256

TMUs

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

151W

200 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

Capsaicin

GPU Name

Barts

Capsaicin XT C9

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

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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