GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory works at a frequency of 500 MHz on this specific model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 10443 (240%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (323%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 448000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be much (approximately 513%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 224960 (513%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is superior to the GeForce GTX 960M, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49664 (283%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.