AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1600MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +220%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

32

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

375W

750 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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