AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 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 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +453%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

20

-

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

175W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Curacao

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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