Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has core clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be 342% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 383452 (342%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (approximately 480%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 292752 (480%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71008 (407%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be 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 better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.