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 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 dual-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.

General info

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

Place in performance rating	87
Value for money	15.43
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Vega 10
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	27 June 2017 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999
Price now	$961 (1x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's general performance parameters 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 cores	4096	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	12,500 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	300 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	409.6	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
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
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin

Memory

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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti)
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.125

Benchmark performance

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

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Game benchmarks

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.

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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