Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this specific model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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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

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Nvidia Titan X overall. (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 small bit (more or less 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 using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one 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 number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.