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 51.87 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
27.28
Architecture
GCN 5.0
Code name
Vega 10
Type
Desktop
Release date
27 June 2017
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.
Transistor count
12,500 million
of 21100
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
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
Memory clock speed
1890 MHz
of 14000
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
Benchmark 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
51.87
Passmark
11083
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon Vega Frontier Edition from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1070, which is faster by 2% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.