Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a core clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised 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 280		7961 points
	Difference: 13418 (169%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 255452 (106%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (approximately 239%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 249296 (239%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (more or less 196%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58592 (196%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.