GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory speed of 500 MHz. It also features a 4096-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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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
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 8257 (126%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 20 (200%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 295 (190%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (206%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be 384% faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 406272 (384%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot (approximately 447%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 219648 (447%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (approximately 105%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 950, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34432 (105%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it 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 applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.