AMD Radeon R9 Fury vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500

Price

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$ 1873.00

$ 299.99

$ 1573.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2550 points

2707 points

6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

Identical

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

23 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4754 points

0.78% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

53458 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

67144 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51276 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61343 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

54355 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1845 MHz

84% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

4096 Bit

3100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

150 W

83% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.17 TFLOPS

37% slightly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

154% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

154% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

174th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 Fury vs Radeon RX 5500 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 Fury in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 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 Radeon RX 5500 over the Radeon R9 Fury.