GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM memory set to run at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB overall. (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 (about 700%) faster with regards to texture 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 quite a bit (approximately 600%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and should be able to handle higher 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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.