Radeon RX 6700 XT vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has core clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 102236 (26%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a bit (about 5%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17568 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60096 (68%)

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.