Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 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 RX Vega 56		21011 points
Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
	Difference: 6218 (42%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 92570 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a small bit (approximately 4%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX Vega 56. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9856 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6784 (10%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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