Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which has a clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 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
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 11286 (322%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (450%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be 346% quicker than the Radeon RX 550 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 397312 (346%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (approximately 664%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 233600 (664%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is much (approximately 282%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 550, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49600 (282%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.