GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The HBM memory works at a speed of 500 MHz on this specific model. 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 860M		4340 points
	Difference: 10453 (241%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 230 Watts (511%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 860M overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 448000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be much (about 251%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 860M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 192288 (251%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54448 (427%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 output rate also depends 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.