AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Unknown
Generation
Sea Islands
Pirate Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM
Memory Bus
384bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
64
Shading Units
2048
4096
TMUs
128
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
67.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
268.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Capsaicin
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Capsaicin XT C9
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
596 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
600 W
200 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a3x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.