NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 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

34% slightly better overall score

2846 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

68 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

56 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5163 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1050 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

53% significantly higher pixel rate

67.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

268.8 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

8.60 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

4096

45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

256

45% significantly 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 604

161st of 604

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 X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 Fury X in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 X 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 980 Ti over the Radeon R9 Fury X.