GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory is set to run at a frequency of 500 MHz on this specific model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 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

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform quite a bit faster than 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 is quite a bit (more or less 513%) better at anisotropic filtering 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 running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, and very much so. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.