Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 14789 (224%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 176% faster than the Radeon R9 270X in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 316252 (176%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (approximately 342%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 273792 (342%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56448 (176%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.