Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs 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 R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 16998 (388%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (161%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 376% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 391452 (376%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (more or less 474%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 292192 (474%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (about 403%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70848 (403%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.