Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1600MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (375W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
+128%
13110
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jul 2017
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1382 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
512bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
64
2816
Shading Units
4096
176
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
375W
900 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Vega 10
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX LCS
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.4
