GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs 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 850M		3340 points
	Difference: 11453 (343%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 850M		49 Sol/s
	Difference: 401 (818%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 850M		40 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (588%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 850M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 480000 (1500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit (more or less 667%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 850M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		35040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 233760 (667%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (about 379%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 850M, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		14016 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53184 (379%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per 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 this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.