Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. 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 5500		150 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (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 quite a bit (about 141%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 a lot (more or less 66%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.