AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +132%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 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

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

345.6GB/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

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

300W

950 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Vega 10

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

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6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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