Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 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 295X2		21205 points
	Difference: 174 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 144548 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be just a bit (more or less 1%) better at AF than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4544 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be a lot (approximately 47%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41856 (47%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 potential to get to the max fill rate.