AMD Radeon R9 Fury vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 1873.00

$ 749.99

$ 1123.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2550 points

14445 points

466% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

292 FPS

232 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

213 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

260 FPS

209 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

124 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4754 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51276 points

176249 points

243% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61343 points

177326 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

2310 MHz

131% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% 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

576 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

21% slightly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

362% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

230% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.17 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

229% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

5120

42% many more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

320

42% many more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

173rd of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

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 6950 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6950 XT beats the Radeon R9 Fury in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R9 Fury has a slightly lower TDP at 275 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6950 XT over the Radeon R9 Fury.