Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1469 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (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 (about 27%) faster with regards to AF 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 is a lot (approximately 43%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and also should be capable of handling 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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.