Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid sales 27 June 2017 at a recommended price of $1,499. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.4 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.89 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 482.8 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 375 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.4 (2017)
GPU code name	Vega 10
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	27 June 2017 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,499	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid'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 Liquid's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	of 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate	409.6	of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs	64	of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs	256	of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid: 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 type	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed	1886 MHz	of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	482.8 GB/s	of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid. 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12.0
Shader Model	5.0
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL	2.1

Benchmark performance

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

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