Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a speed of 1890 MHz on this specific card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (approximately 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96992 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.