Radeon RX 6700 XT vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 102236 (26%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a small bit (more or less 5%) more effective at AF than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17568 (5%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot (approximately 68%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60096 (68%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.