GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a core clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 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 950		6536 points
	Difference: 14843 (227%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 389724 (369%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (more or less 620%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 304640 (620%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (more or less 170%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 950, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55680 (170%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.