Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid vs R9 M290X Crossfire

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking334not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.53no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)GCN 1.4 (2017)
GPU code nameNeptune CFVega 10
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2014 (11 years ago)27 June 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,499

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 cores25604096
Core clock speed850 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistors2x 2800 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt375 Watt
Texture fill rateno data409.6
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data256

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount2x 4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz1886 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data482.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12.0
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.5
OpenCLno data2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2014 27 June 2017
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 375 Watt

R9 M290X Crossfire has 87.5% lower power consumption.

Vega Frontier Edition Liquid, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid is a desktop one.

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