Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that 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 as well as 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 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (about 32%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84992 (32%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is much (more or less 22%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19072 (22%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.