GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM RAM running at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 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 970M		7520 points
	Difference: 7273 (97%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (267%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 416000 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (more or less 264%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194880 (264%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22848 (52%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.