Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features core speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 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
Radeon R7 250X		2860 points
	Difference: 18519 (648%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (216%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 588% quicker than the Radeon R7 250X in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 423452 (588%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (more or less 784%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 313792 (784%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (about 453%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 250X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72448 (453%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.