GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that 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 RAM. 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 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 191 Watts (227%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 473600 (1233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (more or less 918%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 242400 (918%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (about 918%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60600 (918%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels 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. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.