GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (approximately 38%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96992 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 Super is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14272 (16%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per 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 speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.