GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM RAM running at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 256 TAUs, 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 quite a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (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 should be much (approximately 918%) more effective at texture filtering 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 (approximately 918%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.