Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also uses a 4096-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, 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 280X		8886 points
	Difference: 5907 (66%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280X		294 Sol/s
	Difference: 156 (53%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon R9 280X		21 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R9 280X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224000 (78%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (approximately 147%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160000 (147%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40000 (147%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.