GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1050 MHz. The HBM RAM is set to run at a frequency of 500 MHz on this specific card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 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 980		13552 points
	Difference: 1241 (9%)

Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High

Radeon R9 Fury X		65 FPS
GeForce GTX 980		63 FPS
	Difference: 2 (3%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 10 (50%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
	Difference: 42 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X is 129% faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 288000 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (more or less 87%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 124672 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R9 Fury X, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4864 (7%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.