Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically perform a bit faster than the Radeon R9 Fury X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 77824 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (approximately 129%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 347200 (129%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is quite a bit (about 267%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 Fury X, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 179200 (267%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.