GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has GPU core speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM set to run at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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 Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
GeForce GTX 980M		9476 points
	Difference: 11903 (126%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980M		100 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 367452 (287%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (approximately 255%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 980M. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 254144 (255%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the GeForce GTX 980M, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22016 (33%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.