GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (450%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 486400 (1900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (approximately 2955%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 260000 (2955%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62800 (1427%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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 - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.