Radeon R9 390 8G vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 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
Radeon R9 390 8G		12733 points
	Difference: 8646 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R9 390 8G in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
	Difference: 111452 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (approximately 121%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 390 8G. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 193792 (121%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (more or less 38%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 390 8G, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24448 (38%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum 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 clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.