Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features core 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 Texture Address Units 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 RX Vega 56		21011 points
	Difference: 368 (2%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 18% faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 76022 (18%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (more or less 37%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX Vega 56. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94848 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a bit (approximately 20%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14464 (20%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.