Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 342% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 383452 (342%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (approximately 480%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 292752 (480%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (about 407%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71008 (407%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.