GeForce GTX 880M vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with a clock speed of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also makes use of a 4096-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, 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 880M		6360 points
	Difference: 8433 (133%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 880M		130 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (112%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 880M overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 880M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 384000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (approximately 120%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 880M. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 880M		122112 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 146688 (120%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution 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 880M		30528 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36672 (120%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.