In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R9 FURY Sapphire Tri-X 4GB Edition are noticeably better than the AMD Radeon R9 270X Crossfire.

The R9 FURY and the R9 270X have the same core clock speed of 1000 MHz, but the R9 FURY has 64 more Texture Mapping Units than the R9 270X. As a result, the R9 FURY exhibits a 64 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the R9 270X. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R9 FURY and the R9 270X have both the same core clock speed and the same Pixel Fill Rate. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R9 FURY was released over a year more recently than the R9 270X, and so the R9 FURY is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the R9 270X.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The Radeon R9 FURY Sapphire Tri-X 4GB Edition and the Radeon R9 270X Crossfire have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The R9 FURY has 153.6 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R9 270X, which means that the memory performance of the R9 FURY is massively better than the R9 270X.

The Radeon R9 FURY Sapphire Tri-X 4GB Edition has 3584 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R9 270X Crossfire has 2560. However, the actual shader performance of the R9 FURY is 3046 and the actual shader performance of the R9 270X is 2285. The R9 FURY having 761 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the R9 FURY delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R9 270X.

The Radeon R9 FURY Sapphire Tri-X 4GB Edition requires 375 Watts to run and the Radeon R9 270X Crossfire requires 360 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 750 Watts for the R9 FURY and a PSU with at least 750 Watts for the R9 270X. The R9 FURY requires 15 Watts more than the R9 270X to run. The difference is not significant enough for the R9 FURY to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the R9 270X.