GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with a clock frequency 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 features 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 860M		4340 points
	Difference: 10453 (241%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 230 Watts (511%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Fury X is 700% faster than the GeForce GTX 860M overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 448000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot (about 251%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 860M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 192288 (251%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54448 (427%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.