GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses 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 particular 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 Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
GeForce GTX 980M		9476 points
	Difference: 11903 (126%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980M		100 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 980M overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 367452 (287%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 255%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980M. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 254144 (255%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22016 (33%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.