Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a core clock speed of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It 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 5600		150 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon RX 5600 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 200540 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (approximately 101%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177792 (101%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a little bit (about 1%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 448 (1%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.