Radeon R9 Fury vs Radeon RX 480 mobile

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon R9 Fury and Radeon RX 480 mobile, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon R9 Fury stacks up against Radeon RX 480 mobile, check out specs charts below.

Radeon RX 480 mobile is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon RX 480 mobile 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 RX 480 mobile here:

Main Specs

  Radeon R9 Fury Radeon RX 480 mobile
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 100 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon R9 Fury has 175% more power consumption, than Radeon RX 480 mobile.
  • Radeon R9 Fury is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon RX 480 mobile uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • Radeon RX 480 mobile has 4 GB more memory, than Radeon R9 Fury.
  • Radeon R9 Fury is used in Desktops, and Radeon RX 480 mobile - in Laptops.
  • Radeon R9 Fury is build with GCN 1.2 architecture, and Radeon RX 480 mobile - with Polaris.
  • Radeon R9 Fury is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 480 mobile - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 480 mobile is 7500 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 Fury.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 50−55 12−14
ultra / 1080p 30−35 7−8
QHD / 1440p 27−30 0−1
4K / 2160p 14−16
low / 720p 75−80 27−30
medium / 1080p 60−65 14−16
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 Fury in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 250% more, than Radeon RX 480 mobile.

Full Specs

  Radeon R9 Fury Radeon RX 480 mobile
Architecture GCN 1.2 Polaris
Code name Fiji Polaris
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 16 June 2015 1 August 2016
Pipelines 3584 2304
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 1077 MHz
Transistor count 8,900 million 5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 224.0 155.1
Floating-point performance 7,168 gflops 4,963 gflops
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 256.0 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 6.3 6.4
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
Vulkan + 1.2.131
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 800 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Eyefinity +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
TrueAudio +
Mantle +
Bridgeless CrossFire +
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
DisplayPort support +
CrossFire +
VCE +
DDMA audio +
Compute units 56
AppAcceleration +
High bandwidth memory (HBM) +
LiquidVR +
TressFX +
UVD +
FRTC +
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