Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled sales 13 July 2017 at a recommended price of $1,489. 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 375 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVega 10
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date13 July 2017 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,489 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled'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 Watercooled'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)375 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 Watercooled 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 Watercooled: 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 Watercooled. 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 Watercooled, 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 Watercooled. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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