Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480, which comes with core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 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
Radeon RX 480		13349 points
	Difference: 1444 (11%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 170 (61%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (11%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 249856 (95%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (more or less 67%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107520 (67%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is superior to the Radeon RX 480, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31360 (88%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has 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 better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.