Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM RAM runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this specific model. 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
Radeon HD 7870 XT		6390 points
	Difference: 8403 (132%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 15 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (49%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7870 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320000 (167%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (about 203%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7870 XT. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 180000 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		29600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37600 (127%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 amount 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 better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.