GPU Showdown

Radeon Vega Frontier EditionvsGeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is a modern gaming and creative card for anyone who needs high frame rates in today's demanding games, while the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is an older workstation card built for professional compute tasks.

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
16 GB · 300W
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
16 GB · 320W
AMD

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

GCN 5.0 · TSMC 14 nm · 2017

31score
3.5/ 5
0 votes
VRAM
16 GB
TDP
300W
CUDA Cores
4,096
Boost Clock
1600 MHz

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NVIDIA

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Ada Lovelace · TSMC 5 nm · 2024

82score
4.1/ 5
0 votes
VRAM
16 GB
TDP
320W
Shaders
10,240
Boost Clock
2550 MHz

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Aggregate Performance

Overall Performance Score

A unified score from combined synthetic and real-world benchmarks. 100 represents the fastest consumer GPU available.

Vega Frontier Edition
31
RTX 4080 SUPERWinner
82
RTX 4080 SUPER leads by 164.5% in aggregate performance.
Where they rank overall
#5RTX 408083
#6RTX 4080 SUPER82
#7RTX 5090 D V279
#86RX Vega 5631
#87Vega Frontier Edition31
#88GTX 1660 Super30
Technical Specifications

Side-by-Side Specs

Every detail compared. Highlighted cells indicate the leading value for that metric.

SpecsVega Frontier EditionRTX 4080 SUPER
General
Process Node14 nm5 nm
Memory
VRAM16 GB16 GB
Memory TypeHBM2GDDR6X
Memory Bus2048-bit256-bit
Bandwidth483.8 GB/s736.3 GB/s
Compute
CUDA Cores4,09610,240
TMUs256320
ROPs64112
Boost Clock1600 MHz2550 MHz
FP3213.11 TF52.22 TF
Power
TDP300320
Power Connectors2x 8-pin1x 16-pin
Display
Max Resolution7680×43207680×4320
Display Outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Verdict

Which should you buy?

Winner overall

The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER wins decisively with far faster performance and modern features for gaming and creative work.

Best value

The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is the smarter pick for budget buyers, offering much higher performance for the price.

When the other wins

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is the right choice for a vintage workstation build or legacy software that specifically requires older Radeon compute support.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is the Vega Frontier Edition better than the RTX 4080 SUPER?

Overall the RTX 4080 SUPER is the stronger graphics card: it ranks higher in our aggregate performance score (82 vs 31 out of 100), so it leads the Vega Frontier Edition in most workloads.

How much faster is the RTX 4080 SUPER than the Vega Frontier Edition?

Based on our aggregated benchmark scores the RTX 4080 SUPER is roughly 165% faster than the Vega Frontier Edition overall. The real-world gap varies by game, resolution and settings.

Which should you buy, the Vega Frontier Edition or the RTX 4080 SUPER?

If you want the most performance, pick the RTX 4080 SUPER. If the Vega Frontier Edition is meaningfully cheaper where you shop, it can be the better value for similar real-world results — check current prices and the full spec comparison above before deciding.