GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM RAM works at a speed of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 11463 (344%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 480000 (1500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (approximately 635%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 232240 (635%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52576 (360%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.