AMD Radeon R9 Fury vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 Fury

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2550 points

54% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

21 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4754 points

61% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2939 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

53458 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

67144 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51276 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61343 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1127 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

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4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

219% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

100 W

175% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224 Gigatexels/s

107% significantly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.17 TFLOPS

107% significantly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

133% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

133% 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

174th of 586

230th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 Fury vs GeForce GTX 980M comparison

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

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 Fury is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M.