From the ATI Wonder in 1986 to the AMD Radeon RX in 2016, we take a look at the evolution of AMD graphics.
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Yes, because of the process node shrink. But it had 63% more transistors.Even with the increase in resources, the Radeon HD 7970's Tahiti GPU was more compact and able to attain higher clock rates than its predecessor.
Well, according to Wikipedia, both it and the HD 6970 had a TDP of 250 W. I think the HD 6970 was their first single GPU to reach that point.It consumed more power than its predecessor, though.
Tip of the hat to Nvidia, on Maxwell.The Radeon R9 Fury X outperformed Nvidia's GeForce GTX 980, but traded blows with its GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
Product FP32 (GFLOPS) Memory (GB/s) Shaders Texture Units ROPs
GTX 980 Ti 5632 336 2816 176 96
R9 Fury X 8602 512 4096 256 64
Tip of the hat to Nvidia, on Maxwell.The Radeon R9 Fury X outperformed Nvidia's GeForce GTX 980, but traded blows with its GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
Product FP32 (GFLOPS) Memory (GB/s) Shaders Texture Units ROPs
GTX 980 Ti 5632 336 2816 176 96
R9 Fury X 8602 512 4096 256 64