GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory is set to run at a frequency of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 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 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 10443 (240%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (323%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 448000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (about 513%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 224960 (513%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49664 (283%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.