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 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 39.78 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of Radeon R9 FURY X's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Code name
Fiji
Type
Desktop
Design
reference
Release date
24 June 2015
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.
Compute units
64
Transistor count
8,900 million
of 21100
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
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)
+
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
of 14000
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
6
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
+
Benchmark 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
39.78
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
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon R9 FURY X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 FURY X performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 FURY X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.