GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a speed of 1890 MHz on this particular model. 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

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 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 (more or less 27%) more effective at AF 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 running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is superior to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, but not by far. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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