Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X is 95% faster than the Radeon RX 590 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 249856 (95%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (more or less 27%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57264 (27%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot (about 43%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20192 (43%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.