NVIDIA NV28 A2 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking141not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money6.17no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code nameVega 10NV28 A2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 June 2017 (6 years old)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data
Current price$961 (1x MSRP)no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096no data
Core clock speed1382 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1600 MHzno data
Number of transistors12,500 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rate409.6no data
Floating-point performance13,107 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2no data
Maximum RAM amount16 GBno data
Memory bus width2048 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1890 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/sno data

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)8.1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.1.125N/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm

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