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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire vs Radeon R9 FURY X

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon R9 FURY X. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon R9 FURY X. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire here:

    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon R9 FURY X
    Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin
    Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
    Maximum RAM amount 2x2 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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    • Radeon R9 FURY X has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon R9 FURY X - in Desktops.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 FURY X - with GCN 3.0.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 FURY X - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 FURY X is 150 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 21−24 50−55
    ultra / 1080p 12−14 30−35
    QHD / 1440p 7−8 27−30
    4K / 2160p 5−6 14−16
    low / 720p 40−45 75−80
    medium / 1080p 24−27 60−65
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 FURY X in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 131% more, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.

    Full Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon R9 FURY X
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 3.0
    Code name Blackcomb XT Fiji
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 6 January 2011 24 June 2015
    Pipelines 1920 4096
    Core clock speed 680 MHz
    Boost Clock 1050 MHz
    Transistor count 2x1700 Million 8,900 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 268.8
    Floating-point performance 8,602 gflops
    Length 191 mm
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 4096 Bit
    Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1050 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 6.3
    OpenGL 4.5
    OpenCL 2.0
    Vulkan +
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 858 Mh/s
    Laptop size large
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    TrueAudio +
    Mantle +
    Design reference
    Bridgeless CrossFire +
    Number of Eyefinity displays 6
    DisplayPort support +
    CrossFire +
    VCE +
    DDMA audio +
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 33.4 Mh/s
    Compute units 64
    AppAcceleration +
    High bandwidth memory (HBM) +
    LiquidVR +
    TressFX +
    UVD +
    FRTC +
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