GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a clock speed of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 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 950		6536 points
	Difference: 14843 (227%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 369% faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 389724 (369%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 620%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 304640 (620%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA 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 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55680 (170%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.