Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that 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 memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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 should be a little bit (about 7%) more effective at 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 will be much (more or less 47%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock 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 memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.