GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		350 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is 82% quicker than the Radeon R9 Fury X overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		934298 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 422298 (82%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is much (about 31%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		352800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84000 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is superior to the Radeon R9 Fury X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		141120 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73920 (110%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.