Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features GPU clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, 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 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 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general. (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 should be quite a bit (more or less 37%) better at texture filtering 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

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 reach the maximum fill rate.