AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1600MHz vs 1340MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +112%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2017

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

64

-

2304

Shading Units

4096

144

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Vega 10

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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