NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 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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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 993.15 significantly less expensive

$ 1873.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

2550 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

60 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

Identical

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

51 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

4754 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

53458 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

67144 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

51276 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

61343 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

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

224.4 GB/s

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

66% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

224 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

7.17 TFLOPS

43% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3584

75% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

224

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

173rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 vs Radeon R9 Fury comparison

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

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the Radeon R9 Fury.