GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory is set to run at a frequency of 500 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (450%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be 1900% faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 486400 (1900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (more or less 2955%) better at AF than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 260000 (2955%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit (about 1427%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62800 (1427%)

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 moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.