GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

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

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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 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 11463 (344%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 480000 (1500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be much (more or less 635%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 232240 (635%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high 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 GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52576 (360%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.