GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM RAM set to run at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		105 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (162%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X is 789% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 454400 (789%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (approximately 700%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 235200 (700%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot (approximately 600%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57600 (600%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type 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, High Dynamic Range 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 worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.