Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also features a 4096-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be a small bit superior to the Nvidia Titan X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
	Difference: 20480 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be a little bit (more or less 18%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48608 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68832 (102%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.