GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has GPU core speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised 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

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be just a bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general. (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 is a bit (about 12%) better at 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 will be a small bit (approximately 19%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also should be capable of handling higher screen 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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.