AMD Radeon R9 Fury X vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2846 points

14% slightly better overall score

2476 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

68 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5163 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1545 MHz

47% 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

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

175 W

57% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

268.8 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.60 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4096

77% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

256

77% significantly more texture mapping units

144

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

161st of 600

182nd of 600

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 590 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 Fury X GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 590 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 590 has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury X at 275 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 Fury X is faster than the Radeon RX 590.