AMD Radeon R9 390X vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 390X AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 R9 390X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390X

5.914 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +121%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 390X

4245

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +66%

7078

Radeon R9 390X

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jun 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

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

64

2816

Shading Units

4096

176

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

184.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

5.914 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

739.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

Vega 10

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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

Board Design

275W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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