Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 200540 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (approximately 101%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177792 (101%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a small bit (more or less 1%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 448 (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

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

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

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