Radeon R9 390 8G vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a core clock speed of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 390 8G		12733 points
	Difference: 8646 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 390 8G in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
	Difference: 111452 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (more or less 121%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 390 8G. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 193792 (121%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 38%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 390 8G, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24448 (38%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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