GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory works at a speed of 500 MHz on this specific card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
	Difference: 160 (55%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (58%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 2608 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be 160% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 315392 (160%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (about 148%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160368 (148%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5088 (8%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.