Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with core clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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 Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
	Difference: 6586 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 16548 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (more or less 32%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84992 (32%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (more or less 32%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 Fury X, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21248 (32%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.