AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1600MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +856%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Apr 2018

Radeon Pro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

10

4096

Shading Units

640

256

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Lexa

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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