Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1700 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 3840 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6800 should be a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 Fury X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12288 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 should be much (more or less 52%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 139200 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is superior to the Radeon R9 Fury X, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96000 (143%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling 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 graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.