AMD Radeon R9 Fury X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 Fury X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2846 points

4552 points

59% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

68 FPS

112 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

57 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

79 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

44 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1703 MHz

62% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

5.97 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

4096 Bit

2033% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

52% significantly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

80 W

243% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

1% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

268.8 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.60 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

27% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4096

6% slightly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

256

113% significantly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

161st of 600

110th of 600

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 X vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 Fury X in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 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 GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury X at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Radeon R9 Fury X.