NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3839 points

50% significantly better overall score

2550 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4754 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

53458 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

67144 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

51276 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

61343 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

4096 Bit

966% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

512 GB/s

52% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

10% slightly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

61% significantly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

224 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

7.17 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

3584

27% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

224

27% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

173rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 Fury specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the Radeon R9 Fury in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury at 275 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the Radeon R9 Fury.