GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a speed of 1890 MHz on this model. 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 RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 8% faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (more or less 38%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96992 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super will be a bit (about 16%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14272 (16%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.