Radeon RX 6950 XT vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a core clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be a small bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 94372 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is quite a bit (about 74%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 262208 (74%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 179%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 157952 (179%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.