GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (about 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96992 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 Super is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14272 (16%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.