AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1750MHz vs 1600MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)
Lower TDP (295W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon VII
+2%
13.44 TFLOPS
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
13.11 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon VII
+27%
8923
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
6973
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon VII
+30%
4374
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
3348
Blender
Radeon VII
+4%
772
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
742
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jun 2017
Vega II
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1400 MHz
Base Clock
1382 MHz
1750 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM2
Memory Type
HBM2
4096bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
1020GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
60
Compute Units
64
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-
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3840
Shading Units
4096
240
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
64
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-
-
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16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
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-
Theoretical Performance
112.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
420.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
26.88 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
13.44 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
3.360 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
295W
TDP
300W
600 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 20
GPU Name
Vega 10
Vega 20 XT
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX AIR
GCN 5.1
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
13.23 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
331 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
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6.7
Shader Model
6.4
