Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 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 Fury X		14793 points
	Difference: 6586 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 16548 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (approximately 32%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 Fury X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84992 (32%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (about 32%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 Fury X, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21248 (32%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.