GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 4096 SPUs, 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

GeForce RTX 2080		26155 points
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
	Difference: 4776 (22%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be just a bit better than the GeForce RTX 2080 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (approximately 27%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2080. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75032 (27%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8512 (10%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.