Radeon VII vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a clock speed of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 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 VII		27400 points
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
	Difference: 6021 (28%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon VII		295 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 553124 (112%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is just a bit (approximately 5%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon VII. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17792 (5%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon VII will be a bit (more or less 1%) better at FSAA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1152 (1%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's 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 is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.