Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which features core clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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 470		11756 points
	Difference: 3037 (26%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 161 (56%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Fury X will be 142% faster than the Radeon RX 470 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 300800 (142%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (about 127%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150272 (127%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (about 127%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 470, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37568 (127%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.