Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 4608 SPUs as well as 288 Texture Address Units and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

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

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is quite a bit (more or less 96%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 256800 (96%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 166400 (248%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.