Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has GPU clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, 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 670		7351 points
	Difference: 14028 (191%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 158% quicker than the Geforce GTX 670 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 303452 (158%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (approximately 245%) more effective at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 251312 (245%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (more or less 202%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 670, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59168 (202%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.