AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +170%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic 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

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

40

-

4096

Shading Units

2560

256

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

275W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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