GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory is set to run at a frequency of 500 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 7166 (94%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 296 (192%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 19 (173%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 400000 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (more or less 273%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 196672 (273%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (approximately 86%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31136 (86%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.