AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1600MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +337%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Nov 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

24

-

4096

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

96

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

31.20 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

185W

750 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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