Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with core clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. 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 5700		180 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be just a bit faster 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 will be a lot (more or less 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 using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is the winner, though not by far. (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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.