AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (2150MHz vs 1600MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +67%

22.02 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

742

Radeon Pro W6900X +169%

1998

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Aug 2021

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

32GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

80

4096

Shading Units

5120

256

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Navi 21

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

GCN 5.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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