Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 550, which features a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation 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 550		3507 points
	Difference: 11286 (322%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (450%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 397312 (346%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit (more or less 664%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 233600 (664%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49600 (282%)

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 transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.