AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM 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 and 11 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3936 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +4582%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jul 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

2

-

4096

Shading Units

160

256

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

35W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Caicos

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Caicos XTX

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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