GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this particular model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is 3% faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 12452 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a little bit (more or less 12%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36992 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is a bit (more or less 19%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17152 (19%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.