Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470, which has core clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 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
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 3037 (26%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 161 (56%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (129%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 470 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 300800 (142%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a lot (approximately 127%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150272 (127%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37568 (127%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the 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 the core 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.