Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 295X2		21205 points
Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
	Difference: 6412 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (82%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R9 Fury X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be much (about 33%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 89536 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is quite a bit (approximately 94%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 Fury X, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63104 (94%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.