AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X 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 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1600MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +453%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon R7 265X OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Aug 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

20

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Curacao

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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