GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (588%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 505600 (7900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be much (about 14833%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 267000 (14833%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (approximately 7367%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66300 (7367%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.