GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 12452 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be just a bit (more or less 12%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36992 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is a small bit (approximately 19%) more effective at AA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17152 (19%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.