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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Processor
Vega 10
Cores
4096
TMUs
256
ROPs
64
Memory Size
16 GB
Memory Type
HBM2
Bus Width
2048 bit
GPU Chip
GPU
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The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is an enthusiast-class professional graphics card by AMD, launched on July 13th, 2017. Built on the 14 nm process, and based on the Vega 10 graphics processor, in its Vega 10 XTX LCS variant, the card supports DirectX 12. The Vega 10 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 495 mm² and 12,500 million transistors. It features 4096 shading units, 256 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. AMD has paired 16 GB HBM2 memory with the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled, which are connected using a 2048-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1382 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1600 MHz, memory is running at 945 MHz.
Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled draws power from 2x 8-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 375 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a. Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. The card measures 267 mm in length, 111 mm in width, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 1489 US Dollars.

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX LCS
Architecture
GCN 5.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
14 nm
Transistors
12,500 million
Density
25.3M / mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Chip Package
BGA-2013

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jul 13th, 2017
Generation
Radeon Pro Vega
(Vega Series)
Predecessor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Successor
Radeon Pro Navi
Production
Active
Launch Price
1,489 USD
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Relative Performance

GeForce RTX 5090
563%
GeForce RTX 4090
429%
GeForce RTX 5080
371%
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
331%
GeForce RTX 4080
328%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
328%
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
323%
Radeon RX 9070 XT
309%
Radeon RX 7900 XT
282%
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
277%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
277%
Radeon RX 9070
277%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
254%
GeForce RTX 5070
251%
GeForce RTX 3090
247%
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
244%
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
236%
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
233%
Radeon RX 6950 XT
229%
GeForce RTX 4070
226%
Radeon RX 6900 XT
223%
GeForce RTX 3080
220%
Radeon RX 7800 XT
219%
Radeon RX 6800 XT
211%
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
196%
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
195%
Radeon RX 7700 XT
192%
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
186%
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
186%
Radeon RX 6800
180%
Radeon RX 6750 XT
178%
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
176%
GeForce RTX 3070
174%
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
173%
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
172%
GeForce RTX 5060
169%
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
152%
Radeon RX 6700 XT
150%
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
139%
Radeon RX 7600 XT
138%
GeForce RTX 4060
137%
Arc B580
137%
GeForce RTX 5050
134%
GeForce RTX 2080
133%
Radeon RX 6650 XT
130%
Radeon RX 7600
130%
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
123%
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
122%
Arc A770
122%
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
117%
Radeon RX 6600 XT
116%
Radeon VII
115%
Arc A750
113%
Radeon RX 5700 XT
111%
GeForce RTX 2070
109%
Radeon RX 6600
104%
Arc A580
101%
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
101%
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
100%
Radeon RX Vega 64
97%
GeForce RTX 2060
94%
Radeon RX 5700
93%
GeForce GTX 1080
91%
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
90%
Radeon RX 5600 XT
89%
Radeon RX Vega 56
84%
GeForce GTX 1070
81%
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
77%
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
77%
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
73%
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
72%
Radeon R9 FURY X
72%
GeForce GTX 1660
71%
Radeon RX 590
67%
Radeon R9 FURY
65%
GeForce GTX 980
64%
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
64%
Radeon RX 6500 XT
63%
Radeon RX 5500 XT
62%
Radeon RX 580
62%
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
60%
Radeon R9 390X
59%
GeForce GTX 690
59%
Radeon RX 480
58%
Radeon HD 7990
58%
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
57%
GeForce GTX 970
55%
Radeon R9 290X
55%
Radeon R9 390
54%
Radeon RX 570
54%
Radeon R9 290
51%
Radeon RX 470
50%
GeForce GTX 1650
47%
Radeon RX 6400
46%
Arc A380
46%
GeForce GTX 780
46%
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
41%
GeForce GTX 590
41%
Radeon R9 280X
41%
Radeon HD 6990
40%
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
38%
GeForce GTX 680
37%
Radeon R9 380
37%
Radeon HD 7970
37%
GeForce GTX 770
36%
Radeon R9 285
36%
GeForce GTX 960
35%
GeForce GTX 670
34%
Radeon HD 5970
31%
GeForce GTX 1630
31%
Radeon HD 7950
30%
GeForce GTX 1050
30%
GeForce GTX 760
30%
GeForce GTX 580
30%
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
30%
Radeon R9 270X
30%
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
29%
GeForce GTX 950
29%
Radeon RX 560
27%
GeForce GTX 570
26%
GeForce GTX 660
26%
Radeon RX 460
26%
Radeon R7 370
26%
Radeon HD 6970
25%
GeForce GTX 480
24%
Radeon HD 7850
24%
GeForce GTX 295
23%
Radeon HD 6950
23%
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
22%
Radeon HD 4870 X2
22%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
22%
Radeon HD 5870
21%
Radeon HD 6870
20%
GeForce GTX 470
19%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
18%
Radeon HD 5850
18%
GeForce GTX 285
17%
Radeon HD 6850
17%
GeForce GTX 280
16%
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
15%
GeForce GTX 275
15%
GeForce GT 1030
15%
GeForce GTX 460
15%
Radeon HD 4890
14%
Radeon HD 6790
14%
Radeon HD 5830
14%
GeForce GTX 650
13%
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
13%
Radeon HD 4870
13%
GeForce GTX 260
12%
Radeon HD 5770
12%
Radeon HD 7750
12%
Radeon HD 5750
11%
GeForce GTS 450
10%
GeForce GTS 250
10%
Radeon HD 4850
10%
Radeon HD 4770
9%
Radeon HD 4830
9%
Radeon HD 6670
8%
GeForce 9800 GT
8%
GeForce GT 640
8%
Radeon HD 5670
7%
GeForce 9600 GT
7%
GeForce GT 240
6%
GeForce GT 440
6%
Radeon HD 4670
6%
Radeon HD 5570
5%
GeForce GT 430
5%
GeForce GT 220
4%
GeForce GT 520
3%
Radeon HD 6450
3%
Radeon HD 5450
3%
Radeon HD 4550
2%
GeForce 9400 GT
2%
GeForce 210
1%
Based on TPU review data: "Performance Summary" at 1920x1080, 4K for RTX 3080 and faster.
Performance estimated based on architecture, shader count and clocks.

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1382 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
1890 Mbps effective

Memory

Memory Size
16 GB
Memory Type
HBM2
Memory Bus
2048 bit
Bandwidth
483.8 GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
4096
TMUs
256
ROPs
64
Compute Units
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
Width
111 mm
4.4 inches
TDP
375 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Board Number
D050-12

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
Shader Model
6.7

Vega 10 GPU Notes

Generation: Vega
Codename: Greenland
Graphics/Compute: 9.0.1
Shader ISA: GFX9 (gfx900 / gfx901)
Display Core Engine: 12.0
Unified Video Decoder: 7.0
Video Compression Engine: 4.0
System DMA: 4.0.0
Platform Security Processor: 9.0.0
CLRX: GCN 1.4.0

Latest Drivers:
Windows 7:
64-bit: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1
64-bit: Radeon™ Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1.1

Windows 10 / 11:
64-bit: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 (23.19.12)
64-bit: AMD Software: PRO Edition 22.Q4
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