Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 Fury X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 77824 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (approximately 129%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 347200 (129%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is quite a bit (approximately 267%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 Fury X, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 179200 (267%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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