AMD Radeon R9 Fury vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1873.00
$ 139.19
$ 1733.81 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2550 points
11% slightly better overall score
2281 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
34 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
Identical
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4754 points
9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4328 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

53458 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
49182 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

67144 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
54191 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51276 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45779 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61343 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53514 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz
1340 MHz
34% slightly 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
1500% significantly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s
100% significantly higher memory bandwidth
256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W
185 W
48% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s
49% significantly higher pixel rate
42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224 Gigatexels/s
16% slightly higher texture rate
192.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.17 TFLOPS
16% slightly better floating point performance
6.18 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
55% significantly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224
55% significantly more texture mapping units
144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

173rd of 586
192nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series
Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

Radeon R9 Fury vs Radeon RX 580 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 Fury GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 580 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 580 has a significantly lower TDP at 185 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 R9 Fury is faster than the Radeon RX 580.

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