Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Fury X should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (approximately 83%) more effective at texture 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

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high 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 texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 ability to get to the max fill rate.