AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +246%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

32

-

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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