AMD Radeon R9 Fury vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 1873.00

$ 349.00

$ 1524.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2550 points

2605 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

22 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4754 points

4904 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

53458 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

67144 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51276 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61343 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 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

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

130 W

111% 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

173rd of 586

172nd 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 December

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 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 Fury in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury at 275 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is faster than the Radeon R9 Fury.