Friday, June 16th 2017
AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition TDP and Pricing Revealed
AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition goes on sale later this month (26 June). It is designed to provide a "gateway" to the "Vega" GPU architecture for graphics professionals and game developers alike, with the consumer graphics product, the Radeon RX Vega, is bound for late-July/early-August. Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition, being a somewhat "enterprise-segment" product, was expected to have slightly lower TDP than its consumer-graphics sibling, since enterprise-segment implementations of popular GPUs tend to have slightly restrained clock speeds. Apparently, AMD either didn't clock the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition low, or the chip has extremely high TDP.
According to specifications put out by EXXACT, a retailer which deals with enterprise hardware, the air-cooled variant of the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition has a TDP rated at 300W, while its liquid-cooled variant has its TDP rated as high as 375W. To put this in perspective, the consumer-segment TITAN Xp by NVIDIA has its TDP rated at 275W. EXXACT is claiming big performance advantages in certain enterprise benchmarks such as SPECVIEWPERF and Cinebench. In other news, the air-cooled Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition is reportedly priced at USD $1,199; while the liquid-cooled variant is priced at $1,799. Based on the 14 nm "Vega 10" silicon, the Pro Vega Frontier Edition features 4,096 stream processors and 16 GB of HBM2 memory across a 2048-bit memory interface.
According to specifications put out by EXXACT, a retailer which deals with enterprise hardware, the air-cooled variant of the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition has a TDP rated at 300W, while its liquid-cooled variant has its TDP rated as high as 375W. To put this in perspective, the consumer-segment TITAN Xp by NVIDIA has its TDP rated at 275W. EXXACT is claiming big performance advantages in certain enterprise benchmarks such as SPECVIEWPERF and Cinebench. In other news, the air-cooled Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition is reportedly priced at USD $1,199; while the liquid-cooled variant is priced at $1,799. Based on the 14 nm "Vega 10" silicon, the Pro Vega Frontier Edition features 4,096 stream processors and 16 GB of HBM2 memory across a 2048-bit memory interface.
123 Comments on AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition TDP and Pricing Revealed
www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-desktop-gpus.htmlIf we are comparing the Specviewperf-results a comparable Quadro (P4000) costs less then $900. The Polaris-based WX 7100 comes pretty close aswell and that's below $700.
The only way it would use 20% more energy is if they clocked it 10%+ faster.
I browsed the specviewperc db and I'm on your side with this. Something doesn't add up as they are selling a card that underperforms the competition to a much higher price.
Maybe is marketed for realtime workload.
IDK.
Engineer: Hey Raja, RX VEGA wont match 1080Ti performance unless we give it 240mm AIO and 400watt juice for a 2GHz core clock
Accountant: We can't sell them less than XXX dollars or it will not keep up with cost of HBM2.
Marketing: Shit we are swarmed with forum posts demanding for VEGA.
Raja: Alright let's slap the pro logo on this and call it a "professional card" Then we can hit three birds with one stone! 1). We can avoid talking about gaming performance because, duh, it is a PROFESSIONAL card! 2). We can sell it for a very high price to make the bean counters happy. 3). The community finally gets their VEGA. Besides, our loyal fanboys will shred any douters to pieces on forums.
Lisa Su(in her mind): You idiot pulled a Polaris on me and another shit show like this. You are so fired.
Again, WX7100 performs almost as good as this while being a much weaker GPU.
Called it.
Even if Vega is the same or a bit faster, the card I now own is way fast enough for anything I need.
Shame really.