Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 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

The Radeon R9 Fury X, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be much (about 27%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be much (approximately 40%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 Fury X, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.