AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon Vega Frontier Edition sales 27 June 2017 at a recommended price of $999. This is high-end GCN 5.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 16 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.89 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 483.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 65.96 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Perfomance to price

26.29

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Code name

Vega 10

Type

Desktop

Release date

27 June 2017

Launch price (MSRP)

$999

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$999.99

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

4096

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

1382 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

12,500 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

409.6

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

13,107 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

267 mm

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

2048 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1890 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

483.8 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

66.48

Passmark

11385

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

100 %

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

98.91 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

93.71 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

88.9 %

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon Vega Frontier Edition from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, which is slower by 4% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.