GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features 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 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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 Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
GeForce GTX 970M		7520 points
	Difference: 13859 (184%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 970M overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 399452 (416%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (more or less 379%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970M. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 279872 (379%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 99%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 970M, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44096 (99%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.