Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with a clock speed of 1156 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1600 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
	Difference: 6218 (42%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 92570 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a bit (approximately 4%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX Vega 56. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9856 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be just a bit (more or less 10%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 Fury X, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6784 (10%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.