GeForce 8500 GT 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 RAM runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8500 GT		45 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 230 Watts (511%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be much better than the GeForce 8500 GT in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 499200 (3900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (approximately 7367%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		3600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 265200 (7367%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is superior to the GeForce 8500 GT, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		1800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 65400 (3633%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.