Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (about 32%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84992 (32%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is a lot (about 22%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19072 (22%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.