Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700, which has clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be 12% quicker than the Radeon RX 5700 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 53248 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be quite a bit (about 27%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57840 (27%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is superior to the Radeon R9 Fury X, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26560 (40%)

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 within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.