GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		105 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (162%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 454400 (789%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (more or less 700%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 235200 (700%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is superior to the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57600 (600%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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