GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this specific model. 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
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
	Difference: 4259 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 159452 (47%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 101%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177792 (101%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7552 (9%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.