AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon Sky 900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1600MHz vs 950MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +285%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Mar 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

28

-

4096

Shading Units

1792

256

TMUs

112

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

30.40 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

300W

750 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Orthrus

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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