GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a speed of 1890 MHz on this particular model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs 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 965M		5650 points
	Difference: 15729 (278%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M		60 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 240 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 965M overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 431452 (674%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (more or less 486%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 965M. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		60416 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 293376 (486%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58240 (193%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 reach the max fill rate.