Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units 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 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 4184 (39%)

Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High

Radeon R9 Fury X		65 FPS
Radeon R9 290X		60 FPS
	Difference: 5 (8%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
	Difference: 81 (22%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (3%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X will be 60% faster than the Radeon R9 290X in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 192000 (60%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (about 91%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 128000 (91%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be much (approximately 31%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 290X, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16000 (31%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.