Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has core 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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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 590 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 233308 (89%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (more or less 67%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142256 (67%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (approximately 88%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41440 (88%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.