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Best Bench: 65% AMD(1002 0B36)
Worst Bench: 51% AMD(1002 0B36)

Poor: 51% Great: 65%

SPEED RANK: 113^th / 714

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Best Bench: 66% MSI(1462 3170)
Worst Bench: 53% MSI(1462 3170)

Poor: 53% Great: 66%

SPEED RANK: 112^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		58.9 %			59.3 %	+1%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	77.9 fps	Slightly better lighting effects. +6%	73.7 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	66.8 fps		86.4 fps	Better reflection handling. +29%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	61.2 fps		75.9 fps	Faster multi rendering. +24%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	88.1 fps	Faster NBody calculation. +21%	72.8 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	87.6 fps	+4%	83.9 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	71.7 fps		113 fps	Much better peak reflection handling. +58%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	63.8 fps		80.6 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +26%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	97.9 fps	Faster peak NBody calculation. +21%	80.9 fps


BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max		82 Fps	Better BF1 Fps. +11%		74 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0 %	0.2 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%
Value Value For Money	17.9 %	28.1 %	Much better value. +57%
User Rating UBM User Rating	62 %	66 %	Slightly more popular. +6%
Price Price (score)	$781	$500	Much cheaper. +36%


Age Newest	106 Months	Slightly more recent. +8%	115 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	133 fps	Much better peak texture detail. +60%	83 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	43 fps		72.3 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +68%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	116 fps	Much better texture detail. +55%	74.8 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	41.7 fps		65.3 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +57%

The AMD R9 Fury X sports a brand new Fiji GPU which succeeds Hawaii as AMD's new high end GPU (Hawaii powers the 290/X and 390/X series cards). The new GPU is coupled with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) which is a new memory architecture that allows for significantly higher bandwidth than previous generations. The Fury X is factory overclocked and has a TDP of just 275W, 4GB of VRAM and it comes fitted with a water cooling system which results in a relatively small form factor for a top end graphics card. Although the Fury X only has 4GB of VRAM, this is rarely a problem for gaming even at 4K resolutions. The key comparable for the Fury X is Nvidia's similarly priced 980 Ti. Comparing the 980 Ti and Fury X shows that at stock clocks there is very little between the two cards but 980 Ti has significantly better overclocking potential where it leads by up to 25%. Overall the Fury X trades blows with the best GPUs currently available. ^{[Jun '15 GPUPro]}

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The Nvidia GTX 980 is the new top end Maxwell based Nvidia GPU. The Maxwell architecture offers significantly higher clock for clock performance when compared to Kepler based cards from the previous generation. Comparing the GTX 980 and GTX 970 shows that the 970 only lags by around 17% in terms of performance but it's priced nearly 40% lower making the GTX 970 far better value for money card. Even though the GTX 970 beats the 980 in terms of value, the 980 still destroys previous generation cards. Comparing the GTX 980 and 780 Ti shows that the Newer 980 offers around 14% better performance at a 25% price discount. Nvidia have changed the price/performance landscape with their new Maxwell architecture and now pose a serious threat to AMDs high end GPU market share. The new GTX 980/970 cards replace the now discontinued GTX 780 Ti, 780 and 770. ^{[Sep '14 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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