NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (2520MHz vs 1600MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

12288 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +529%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +416%

36541

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

7078

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +1641%

12921

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

742

GeForce RTX 4090

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 40

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235MHz

Base Clock

1382MHz

2520MHz

Boost Clock

1600MHz

1313MHz

Memory Clock

945MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

1008 GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8 GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

16384

Shading Units

4096

512

TMUs

256

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72MB

L2 Cache

4MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Vega 10

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

76,300 million

Transistors

12,500 million

609mm²

Die Size

495mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

300W

850W

Suggested PSU

700W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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