GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features 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 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		105 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (186%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 760% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 437852 (760%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (about 953%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 320192 (953%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (more or less 821%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78848 (821%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.