GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this specific model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 127447 (26%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a small bit (approximately 17%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51392 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62752 (71%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

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