Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, 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

Radeon Pro Duo		27167 points
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
	Difference: 5788 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Pro Duo should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 528548 (107%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo is quite a bit (about 45%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158208 (45%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo should be much (more or less 45%) more effective at AA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39552 (45%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video 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 ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.