Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 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
Geforce GTX 780		10082 points
	Difference: 11297 (112%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be 72% quicker than the Geforce GTX 780 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
	Difference: 207068 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (about 114%) more effective at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 780. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 188096 (114%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the Geforce GTX 780, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47024 (114%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.