Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM RAM running at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation 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 270		5943 points
	Difference: 8850 (149%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon R9 270		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 15 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X will be 186% quicker than the Radeon R9 270 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 332800 (186%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (approximately 273%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 196800 (273%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38400 (133%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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 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.