Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which features core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 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
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

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (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 much (about 67%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be much (about 88%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 480, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.