Radeon R9 M395X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this specific card. 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 R9 M395X		125 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M395X in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M395X		160000 MB/sec
	Difference: 335452 (210%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (about 282%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M395X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X		92544 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 261248 (282%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the Radeon R9 M395X, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X		23136 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 65312 (282%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.