Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that 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 memory works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be much faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 151388 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (approximately 79%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 155792 (79%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.