GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator 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 980M		9476 points
	Difference: 5317 (56%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 980M		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 295 (190%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980M		100 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (175%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 384000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (about 170%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 980M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 169152 (170%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is just a bit (about 1%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 980M, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 768 (1%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.