GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM RAM set to run at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also features 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, 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 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

The Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (more or less 251%) more effective at anisotropic filtering 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 running with a high screen 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 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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.