Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R9 Fury

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon R9 Fury. 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 7970 and Radeon R9 Fury. 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.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 7970 Radeon R9 Fury
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 275 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7970 has 9% more power consumption, than Radeon R9 Fury.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon R9 Fury has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 7970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is build with GCN architecture, and Radeon R9 Fury - with GCN 1.2.
  • Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon R9 Fury are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7970 is 875 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 Fury.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 50−55
ultra / 1080p 21−24 30−35
QHD / 1440p 16−18 27−30
4K / 2160p 10−11 14−16
low / 720p 60−65 75−80
medium / 1080p 40−45 60−65
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 Fury in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 37% more, than Radeon HD 7970.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 7970 Radeon R9 Fury
Architecture GCN GCN 1.2
Code name Tahiti XT Fiji
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 22 December 2011 16 June 2015
Pipelines 2048 3584
Boost Clock 925 MHz 1000 MHz
Transistor count 4,313 million 8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 118.4 224.0
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops 7,168 gflops
Length 274 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz 500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 264 GB/s 512 GB/s
Shared memory - -
Shader Model 5.1 6.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan +
FreeSync + +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0
HDMI + +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 485 Mh/s 800 Mh/s
Eyefinity + +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
TrueAudio +
Mantle +
Design reference
Bridgeless CrossFire +
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
DisplayPort support +
CrossFire + +
VCE +
DDMA audio +
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 20.71 Mh/s
Compute units 56
AppAcceleration +
High bandwidth memory (HBM) +
LiquidVR +
TressFX +
UVD +
FRTC +
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