Frontier Edition | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:18:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Frontier Edition | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs Titan Xp performance detailed https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/radeon-vega-frontier-edition-vs-titan-xp-performance-detailed/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/radeon-vega-frontier-edition-vs-titan-xp-performance-detailed/#comments Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:43:05 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=338951 While the enthusiast gaming audience will need to wait a little longer to get their hands on the RX Vega, we will be getting our first taste of AMD's latest GPU architecture quite soon. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is supposed to start shipping next week and while it isn't necessarily a gaming card, it …

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While the enthusiast gaming audience will need to wait a little longer to get their hands on the RX Vega, we will be getting our first taste of AMD's latest GPU architecture quite soon. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is supposed to start shipping next week and while it isn't necessarily a gaming card, it can run games. This week, AMD lifted the curtain a bit, allowing the world's first Vega Frontier Edition performance details to be published.

The folks over at PCWorld managed to get their hands on an exclusive preview of the Vega Frontier Edition, putting it directly against an Nvidia Titan Xp. The preview mainly focusses on synthetic benchmarks like Cinebench. However, some gaming performance details were also discussed.

In Cinebench, Vega FE was around 14 percent faster than the Titan Xp, meanwhile it was 28 percent faster in Catia and Creo. The biggest lead came when running the SolidWorks benchmark, in which the Vega FE was 50 percent faster than the Titan Xp. Unfortunately, we didn't get results for more widely known benchmarks like Firestrike or Heaven.

AMD did not want to reveal specific numbers when it came to gaming performance but according to the report, Vega FE was tested against a Titan Xp in Doom (Vulkan), Prey (DX11) and Sniper Elite 4 (DX12). All of the games ran at the highest settings on an Acer 3440×1440 monitor. Apparently, Vega FE should sit somewhere between the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080Ti performance-wise in gaming.

No hard numbers were released from the gaming tests but it is interesting to see the first impressions of someone who has actively used the card. With the first shipments set to go out next week, it shouldn't take long for proper game benchmarks to start showing up.

KitGuru Says: The Vega FE might not be the gaming-oriented GPU in AMD's new stack but it should give us a decent enough impression of what to expect when the RX Vega does eventually arrive. Are any of you still waiting for the RX Vega to launch?  What level of performance are you expecting from it?

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AMD updates GPU roadmap, announces Radeon Vega ‘Frontier Edition’ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/amd-updates-gpu-roadmap-announces-radeon-vega-frontier-edition/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/amd-updates-gpu-roadmap-announces-radeon-vega-frontier-edition/#comments Wed, 17 May 2017 09:42:03 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=334641 Last night, AMD held its Financial Analyst Day meeting, all with the purpose of clearly outlining its product roadmaps and unveiling the rest of its 2017 release plans. Not only did we hear about AMD's upcoming ‘Threadripper' and ‘EPYC' CPU launches, but the company also updated its GPU roadmap from 2017-2020 and unveiled the Radeon …

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Last night, AMD held its Financial Analyst Day meeting, all with the purpose of clearly outlining its product roadmaps and unveiling the rest of its 2017 release plans. Not only did we hear about AMD's upcoming ‘Threadripper' and ‘EPYC' CPU launches, but the company also updated its GPU roadmap from 2017-2020 and unveiled the Radeon Vega ‘Frontier Edition'.

Now before the gamers out there get too excited, Vega ‘Frontier Edition' is not a gaming card, it is part of the Radeon Pro series. AMD is pitching this as “the world's most powerful solution for machine learning and advanced visualization”, with the muscle to handle demanding design, rendering and intelligence workloads.

This particular GPU will come in both air-cooled and liquid cooled versions. As far as technical specs go, it comes equipped with 16GB of HBM2 memory and offers 1.5 times the FP32 performance and 3 times the FP16 performance of the Fury X.

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition specs:

  • Compute units: 64
  • Single precision compute performance (FP32): ~13 TFLOPS
  • Half precision compute performance (FP16): ~25 TFLOPS
  • Pixel Fill Rate: ~90 Gpixels/sec
  • Memory capacity: 16 GBs of High Bandwidth Cache
  • Memory bandwidth: ~480 GBs/sec

Aside from Vega, AMD also spend some time looking to the future, laying out the product roadmap from 2017 up to 2020. The updated roadmap doesn't offer a ton of details or expand much beyond the previous roadmap. However, it does show that Vega will be built on the 14nm and 14nm+ fabrication process, before Navi makes the jump to 7nm. Beyond that, in 2020, AMD is planning to launch its ‘Next Gen' architecture, based on the 7nm+ process.

As you would expect, AMD is continuing to promise increased performance at lower power draws with future GPUs.

KitGuru Says: If you didn't get what you were looking for out of today's announcements from AMD, then perhaps hang tight until the 31st as there will be an additional Computex conference then. This is the time we are expecting to hear about AMD's gaming-oriented Vega GPUs.

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