GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM memory running at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
	Difference: 4096 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be a little bit (about 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48000 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38400 (57%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.