AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1600MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +124%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +70%

7078

Radeon RX 480

4163

Blender

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +98%

742

Radeon RX 480

374

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Radeon Pro

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

36

4096

Shading Units

2304

256

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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