NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 1508.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1873.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

92% significantly better overall score

2550 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

58% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4754 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

53458 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

67144 points

0.89% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

51276 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

61343 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

73% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

512 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

52% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

224 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

7.17 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3584

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

224

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

174th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 Fury benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the Radeon R9 Fury in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the Radeon R9 Fury.