Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs Edge 3D 2200XL

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNV1Vega 10
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date30 September 1995 (29 years ago)13 July 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,489

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data4096
Core clock speed60 MHz1382 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1600 MHz
Number of transistors1 million12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology500 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data375 Watt
Texture fill rate0.06409.6
Floating-point processing powerno data13.11 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs1256

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
Length191 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDRAMHBM2
Maximum RAM amount2 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed60 MHz945 MHz
Memory bandwidth480 MB/s483.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGA1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
Vulkan-1.1.125

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 1995 13 July 2017
Maximum RAM amount 2 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 500 nm 14 nm

Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled has an age advantage of 21 year, a 819100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Edge 3D 2200XL and Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Edge 3D 2200XL is a desktop card while Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Edge 3D 2200XL
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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
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