Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled sales 13 July 2017 at a recommended price of $1,489 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 5.0 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 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 375 Watt.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Vega 10
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	13 July 2017 (6 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,489

Technical specs

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 cores	4096	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	12,500 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	409.6	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	13,107 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and 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).

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 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 type	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled, 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

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

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