AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 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 Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (145W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +2963%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon R600

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

850 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

4

-

4096

Shading Units

320

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

145W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DVI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

RV670

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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