Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also uses a 4096-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 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
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, in theory, should 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 should be much (about 157%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 is much (about 125%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.