Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this model. 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 690		13111 points
	Difference: 8268 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Geforce GTX 690 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 110940 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (more or less 51%) better at AF than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 119552 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen 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
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29888 (51%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.