Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features GPU clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 1% faster than the Nvidia Titan X in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
	Difference: 3932 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a bit (about 11%) faster with regards to AF than the Nvidia Titan X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36384 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47584 (54%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 card can possibly write to its 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 core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.