GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
vs
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is based on the AMD Radeon R9 FURY X (Fiji) and has 4 GB HBM graphics memory with a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 480 (Ellesmere) and has 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X has the Fiji XT C8 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Fiji architecture.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is based on the graphics chip Polaris 10 XT, which comes from the Ellesmere architecture.
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X GPU GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X Based on AMD Radeon RX 480
Fiji XT C8 GPU Chip Polaris 10 XT
Fiji Architecture Ellesmere
64 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
4096 Shader 2304
64 Render Output Units 32
256 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X clocks at 0.500 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 1.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is 7.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
HBM Memory Type GDDR5
0.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
1.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
4096 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.050 GHz Base Clock 1.120 GHz
1.050 GHz Boost Clock 1.266 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 275 W.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 150 W.

275 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is equipped with a total of 1 Axial (Radiator) main fans.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Axial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 2 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
0 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v1.4a HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.2 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 4096x2160 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is 7680x4320 pixels.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_0 DirectX 12_0
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
No VP8 No
No VP9 No

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

210 mm Length 232 mm
130 mm Height 116 mm
40 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X has been manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers since Q2/2015.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G came on the market in Q2/2016 and will have a structure width of 14 nanometers manufactured.

GV-R9FURYX-4GD-B Part-no GV-RX480WF2-4GD
Q2/2015 Release date Q2/2016
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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