Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (275%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 380764 (332%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (more or less 370%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 278592 (370%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69648 (370%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 reach the max fill rate.