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 speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this specific model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform a little 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 quite a bit (about 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

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be a little bit (about 2%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.