Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory is set to run at a speed of 500 MHz on this particular model. 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 Fury X		14793 points
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 6832 (86%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 267 (146%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272000 (113%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (approximately 157%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 164304 (157%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot (about 125%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37344 (125%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.