Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features GPU core speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be just a bit better than the Radeon RX 5700 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (about 68%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142832 (68%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5312 (6%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.