AMD Radeon R9 FURY X vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 FURY X and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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: 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 268.8 GTexel / s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
2.6x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2x 800
4.3x better floating-point performance: 8,602 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
8.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10015 vs 1132
Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 843 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 June 2015 vs 7 November 2008
Texture fill rate	268.8 GTexel / s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	4096 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	8,602 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	10015 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	843 vs 542

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 275 Watt
Around 90% higher memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

10015

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

843

542

Name	AMD Radeon R9 FURY X	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	10015	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	843	542
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 - Manhattan (Frames)	8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5170

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 FURY X	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	TeraScale
Code name	Fiji	R700
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	24 June 2015	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	$420
Place in performance rating	217	244
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,602 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	4096	2x 800
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	268.8 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	275 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	956 million
Core clock speed		625 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	191 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.1
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR3
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)