GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 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 memory. 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 GT 512MB		105 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (186%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be 760% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 437852 (760%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (approximately 953%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 320192 (953%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (about 821%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78848 (821%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.