GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory is set to run at a speed of 1890 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
	Difference: 903 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (approximately 74%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150752 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is superior to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, but only just. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1792 (2%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.