Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be 8% quicker than the Radeon RX 5700 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36700 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (approximately 68%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142832 (68%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is just a bit (more or less 6%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5312 (6%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.