GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this specific card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		143 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 157 Watts (110%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		63360 MB/sec
	Difference: 432092 (682%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (more or less 1337%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		24624 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 329168 (1337%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		10260 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78188 (762%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.