GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM memory set to run at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation 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 870M		4770 points
	Difference: 10023 (210%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 870M		110 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X is 433% quicker than the GeForce GTX 870M in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 416000 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (more or less 155%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 870M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		105392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 163408 (155%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit (approximately 198%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 870M, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		22584 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44616 (198%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.