AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6900X and AMD Radeon R9 FURY X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2x more boost clock speed: 2150 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • 2559.5x more texture fill rate: 688.0 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 4096
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 90% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 24 June 2015
Boost clock speed 2150 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate 688.0 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 5120 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

  • Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 275 Watt vs 300 W
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8925 vs 3739
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8925 vs 3739
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 275 Watt vs 300 W
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8925 vs 3739
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8925 vs 3739

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6900X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3739
8925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3739
8925
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6900X AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
Geekbench - OpenCL 151605
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3739 8925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3739 8925
PassMark - G3D Mark 9595
PassMark - G2D Mark 798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 155.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3431.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 153.089
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 857.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5170

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Navi 21 Fiji
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 24 June 2015
Place in performance rating 232 234
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP) $649

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2150 MHz 1050 MHz
Compute units 80 64
Core clock speed 1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,376 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 44.03 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 22.02 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5120 4096
Pixel fill rate 275.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 688.0 GTexel/s 268.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 W 275 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 8,900 million
Floating-point performance 8,602 gflops
Stream Processors 4096

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.14x Thunderbolt 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Quad-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 191 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 W
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Width 120 mm 4.7 inches
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 512.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective 1050 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)