GeForce 940M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 13053 (750%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X will be 3100% faster than the GeForce 940M in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 496000 (3100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be much (about 945%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 243072 (945%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58624 (684%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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