GeForce GTX 960M 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 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs 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 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 17029 (391%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (362%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 674% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960M in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 431452 (674%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (more or less 707%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 309952 (707%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70912 (404%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.