Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features core clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. 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 5500		150 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 116% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 266076 (116%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (approximately 141%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 206832 (141%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (more or less 66%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35008 (66%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.