Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features GPU clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, 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

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory 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 will be quite a bit (about 370%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (about 370%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 560, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.