Radeon Instinct MI8 vs R9 FURY X

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking218not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.90no data
Power efficiency6.19no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameFijiFiji
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Designreferenceno data
Release date24 June 2015 (9 years ago)12 December 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40964096
Compute units64no data
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHzno data
Number of transistors8,900 million8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate268.8256.0
Floating-point processing power8.602 TFLOPS8.192 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs256256

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length191 mm152 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHigh Bandwidth Memory (HBM)HBM
High bandwidth memory (HBM)+no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1050 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth512 GB/s512.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
UVD+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.3
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 June 2015 12 December 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 175 Watt

Instinct MI8 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 57.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 FURY X and Radeon Instinct MI8. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 FURY X is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI8 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
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