Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 28.95% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon Vega Frontier Edition sales 27 June 2017 at a recommended price of $999. This is a GCN 5.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 16 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 0.95 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 483.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking203
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.69
Power efficiency7.77of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVega 10
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date27 June 2017 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores4096of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1382 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1600 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors12,500 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate409.6of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power13.11 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs64of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs256of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache1 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache4 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeHBM2
Maximum RAM amount16 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width2048 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed945 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.1.125

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Vega Frontier Edition
28.95

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Vega Frontier Edition Samples: 177 12801

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Vega Frontier Edition 76306

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

Vega Frontier Edition 72581

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


A10G 100.83
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 100
Quadro P5000 98.93
Tesla T10 98.1

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is A10G, which is faster by 1% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Vega Frontier Edition:

RTX A2000 105.46
L20 104.91
A10G 100.83
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 100
Quadro P5000 98.93
Tesla T10 98.1
Tesla P40 93.89

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Community ratings

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