Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 282624 (123%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (approximately 83%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 121840 (83%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (about 26%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 5500, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13760 (26%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.