Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare 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 works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon Pro Duo		27167 points
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
	Difference: 5788 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Pro Duo should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 528548 (107%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo is quite a bit (more or less 45%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158208 (45%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo will be quite a bit (more or less 45%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39552 (45%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.