GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		145 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTS 250 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		70400 MB/sec
	Difference: 441600 (627%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (more or less 469%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTS 250 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		47232 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 221568 (469%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		11808 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55392 (469%)

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 across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 also depends on many 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.