ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (240W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1600MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +2654%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

64

320

Shading Units

4096

16

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Vega 10

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

240W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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