AMD Radeon R9 FURY X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Fiji GM204
GPU variant Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040) GM204-200-A1
Architecture GCN 3.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 8,900 million 5,200 million
Die size 596 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 24th, 2015 Sep 19th, 2014
Generation Pirate Islands GeForce 900
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 649 USD 329 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor Volcanic Islands GeForce 700
Successor Arctic Islands GeForce 10
Reviews 111 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 1050 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective
Base clock 1050 MHz
Boost clock 1178 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory type HBM GDDR5
Memory bus width 4096 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 512.0 GB/s 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 4096 1664
TMUs 256 104
ROPs 64 56
Compute units 64
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 2 MB 2 MB
SMM count 13

Performance

Pixel rate 67.20 GPixel/s 65.97 GPixel/s
Texture rate 268.8 GTexel/s 122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 8.602 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 8.602 TFLOPS 3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 537.6 GFLOPS (1:16) 122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 195 mm 7.7 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 115 mm 4.5 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 39 mm 1.5 inches 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 275 W 148 W
Suggested PSU 600 W 300 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 2x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Board number C880-37 PG401

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 6.3 6.4
CUDA 5.2

Other Features

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