AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon R9 285 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +298%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Sep 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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

64

1792

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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