Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 4096 Stream Processors, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation 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
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 13418 (169%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R9 280 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 255452 (106%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (approximately 239%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 249296 (239%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (about 196%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 280, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58592 (196%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.