AMD Radeon R9 Fury

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury is a high-end desktop graphics card. In 2015 it was the second-fastest model in the AMD lineup (after the Radeon R9 Fury X). As the flagship, the R9 Fury is based on the Fiji chip, but only 3,584 of the 4,096 shaders are activated. The chip is manufactured in 28 nm at TSMC and features the third generation of the GCN architecture (also known as GCN 1.2). Another similarity is the 4 GB of HBM graphics memory that is also clocked at 500 MHz (4,096 bit = 512 GB/s).

The gaming performance of the R9 Fury is slightly above a GeForce GTX 980 (desktop and notebook) at maximum details and in high resolution settings. By reducing details and settings, the GTX980 is able to pull ahead thanks to the more efficient drivers. However, this may change in future DirectX 12 games. Compared to laptop graphics solutions, the R9 Fury is slightly slower than two GeForce GTX 980M cards in SLI configuration (but without the micro-stuttering problems).

The Fiji chip fully supports DirectX 12 (feature level 12_0) in hardware and also integrates a new Unified Video Decoder (UVD). Like the Carrizo APUs, the R9 Fury is able to decode H.265 UHD videos on the chip. However, the HDMI outputs still only support HDMI 1.4 and therefore 4K at 30 Hz. HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2, like the GeForce GTX 960, are not supported.

The power consumption is on a level with the faster AMD Radeon Fury X and rated at 275 Watt (typical). Therefore, a 750 W power supply is recommended. Compared to the GeForce GTX 980, the power consumption under load is noticeably higher and also the efficiency is not as good.

Manufacturer	AMD
Codename	Fiji
Architecture	GCN 1.2
Pipelines	3584 - unified
Core Speed	1000 MHz
Memory Speed	500 MHz
Memory Bus Width	4096 Bit
Memory Type	HBM
Max. Amount of Memory	4096 MB
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Transistor Count	8900 Million
technology	28 nm
Features	Mantle, Eyefinity, App Acceleration, CrossFire, PowerTune, ZeroCore, HD3D, TrueAudio
Date of Announcement	16.06.2015
Information	PCI-E 3.0

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy

50.1 pt (52%)

3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

4720 Points (33%)

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

4712 Points (32%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

319815 Points (44%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

27379 Points (41%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

80439 Points (42%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

23381 Points (83%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

14580 Points (36%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

353807 Points (47%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

14860 points (42%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

17543 points (34%)

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3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080

73.5 fps (44%)

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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +

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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen

175 fps (28%)

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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Onscreen OGL on screen

34 fps (9%)

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GFXBench - Car Chase Offscreen off screen

203 fps (47%)

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GFXBench - Car Chase Onscreen on screen

40.2 fps (15%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

1566 Samples/s (30%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

3125 Samples/s (29%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

11890 Points (42%)

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Power Consumption - FurMark 1.19 GPU Stress Test - Power Consumption (external Monitor) 1280x720 *

340 Watt (77%)

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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.