AMD Radeon R9 FURY X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 FURY X sales 24 June 2015 at a recommended price of $649. This is high-end GCN 3.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) memory clocked at 1.05 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 191 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 58.64 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R9 FURY X's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Code name

Fiji

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

24 June 2015

Launch price (MSRP)

$649

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 FURY X's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 FURY X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

4096

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compute units

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

8,900 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

268.8

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

8,602 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 FURY X's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

191 mm

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Bridgeless CrossFire

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 FURY X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

512 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 FURY X.

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

Number of Eyefinity displays

HDMI

DisplayPort support

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 FURY X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration

CrossFire

FRTC

FreeSync

HD3D

LiquidVR

PowerTune

TressFX

TrueAudio

UVD

VCE

DDMA audio

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 FURY X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

OpenCL

2.0

Mantle

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 FURY X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

59.10

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

16710

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 FURY X. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

858 Mh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

33.4 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 FURY X performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

112.48 %

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

111.26 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

105.41 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

89.05 %

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

87.67 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

77.61 %

AMD Radeon R9 390

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 FURY X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which is faster by 3% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.