GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory works at a frequency of 500 MHz on this specific card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 3926 (36%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
	Difference: 188 (72%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 288000 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (approximately 146%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 159600 (146%)

Pixel Rate

Both cards have the exact same pixel fill rate, so theoretically they should be equally good at at FSAA, and be able to handle the same resolutions. (explain)

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 moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 potential to reach the maximum fill rate.