AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X +47%

8.602 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4162

Radeon R9 FURY X +24%

5173

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

Radeon R9 FURY X +76%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

Radeon R9 FURY X +85%

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

Radeon R9 FURY X +60%

80

Radeon RX 480

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Radeon R9 FURY X

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jun 2015

Arctic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

64

2304

Shading Units

4096

144

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.602 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Fiji

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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