Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also uses a 4096-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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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
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 6832 (86%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 267 (146%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272000 (113%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (approximately 157%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 164304 (157%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is superior to the Radeon R9 280, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37344 (125%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.