Radeon R9 285 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, 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 Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
Radeon R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 12879 (152%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R9 285 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 319452 (182%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (about 244%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 250976 (244%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59072 (201%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.