Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a clock speed of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 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

In theory, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be 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 will be a bit (more or less 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

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.