Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

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

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		27629 points
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
	Difference: 6250 (29%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be just a bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 164 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a small bit (about 7%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22272 (7%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is much (more or less 47%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41792 (47%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.