Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, 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 280X		8886 points
	Difference: 12493 (141%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 72% quicker than the Radeon R9 280X overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
	Difference: 207452 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (approximately 225%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 244992 (225%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (more or less 225%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 280X, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61248 (225%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.