Radeon R9 Fury and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 Fury vs Radeon HD 6970
Radeon R9 Fury
9880
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon R9 Fury
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
GCN 1.2 (2015−2016)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Fiji
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
880 MHz
Compute units
56
-
Floating-point performance
7,168 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
8,900 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
550 Watt
Texture fill rate
224.0
84.48
Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
-
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
+
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-