AMD Radeon R9 Fury: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 Fury sales 16 June 2015 at a recommended price of $549. This is GCN 1.2 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) memory clocked at 500 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. ​2x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.

General info

Of Radeon R9 Fury's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	144
Value for money	12.46
Architecture	GCN 1.2 (2015−2016)
GPU code name	Fiji
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	16 June 2015 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$549
Price now	$512 (0.9x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3584	of 18432 (AD102)
Compute units	56
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	8,900 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	275 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	224.0	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	7,168 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 Fury'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
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	​2x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire	1

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 Fury: 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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti)
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 Fury. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

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. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration	+
CrossFire	1
Enduro	-
FRTC	1
FreeSync	1
HD3D	+
LiquidVR	1
PowerTune	+
TressFX	1
TrueAudio	+
ZeroCore	-
UVD	+
VCE	+
DDMA audio	+

API support

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

DirectX	DirectX® 12
Shader Model	6.3
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	+
Mantle	+

Benchmark performance

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

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Mining hashrates

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

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

800 Mh/s

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon R9 Fury is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	91
1440p	79
4K	46

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

30−35

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
Hitman 3	30−35
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
Hitman 3	30−35
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35
Metro Exodus	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	91
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	29
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	46
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−35
Hitman 3	30−35
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35
Metro Exodus	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−35
Hitman 3	30−35
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35
Metro Exodus	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	36

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 Fury performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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