AMD Radeon R9 380X vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon R9 380X

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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 380X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 182.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X

3.973 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +229%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jul 2017

Pirate 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

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

64

-

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

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 Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

Vega 10

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

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

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

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