AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1600MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +203%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2016

Radeon Pro

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

28

-

4096

Shading Units

1792

256

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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