amd

Brand

4GB HBM

Memory

4096

Cores

512 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

$649 Jun 2015 View Details

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

$549 Sep 2014 View Details

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

4GB HBM 275W $649 Jun 2015

Radeon R9 FURY X

$649 • Jun 2015

GeForce GTX 980

$549 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

4GB GDDR5 165W $549 Sep 2014

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon R9 FURY X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Memory Size	4 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	HBM	GDDR5
TDP	275 W	165 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	N/A	1216 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	512 GB/s	224.4 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	28nm
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	4096	2048
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	256	128
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	4096-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	500 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	67.2 GPixel/s	77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	512 GTexel/s	224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.602 GFLOPS	4.981 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	596 mm²	398 mm²
Transistors	8900 Million	5200 Million
Required PSU	600 W	450 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12	12.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

5047 (+41%)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

53054 (+58%)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

33492

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

9741

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

11113 (+14%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+10%)

AVG 144 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

AVG 131 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+18%)

AVG 116 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+13%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

Radeon R9 FURY X (+6%)

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 114 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon R9 FURY X (+11%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon R9 FURY X (+11%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+18%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+30%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+27%)

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

Radeon R9 FURY X (+22%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon R9 FURY X (+32%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+40%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+32%)

AVG 124 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+52%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+64%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+41%)

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+36%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon R9 FURY X (+68%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

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