GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory runs at a speed of 500 MHz on this particular model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 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 870M		4770 points
	Difference: 10023 (210%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 870M		110 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 870M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 416000 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be much (about 155%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 870M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		105392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 163408 (155%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution 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 870M		22584 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44616 (198%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip 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 colour ROPs by the the core 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.