Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with a clock speed of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also makes use of a 4096-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, 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 R7 250X		2860 points
	Difference: 11933 (417%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (189%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 440000 (611%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (more or less 572%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 228800 (572%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (320%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.