Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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 R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 19543 (1064%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (362%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 421852 (573%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (more or less 1374%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 329792 (1374%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 80448 (1006%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.