AMD Radeon Pro VII vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1382 MHz
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 996.1x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 409.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89937 vs 75705
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 May 2020 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1382 MHz
Boost clock speed 1700 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s vs 409.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 89937 vs 75705

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

  • Around 7% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3840
  • Around 89% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Pipelines 4096 vs 3840
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
89937
75705
Name AMD Radeon Pro VII AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL 89937 75705
PassMark - G3D Mark 13327
PassMark - G2D Mark 750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 190.25
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3611.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 181.113
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1373.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7074

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro VII AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 5.0
Code name Vega 20 Vega 10
Launch date 13 May 2020 27 June 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $1899 $999
Place in performance rating 192 199
Type Desktop Desktop
Price now $999.99
Value for money (0-100) 14.37

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1700 MHz 1600 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1400 MHz 1382 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 4096
Pixel fill rate 108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s 409.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 13,107 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 305 mm (12 inches) 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 1024 GB/s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective) 1890 MHz
Memory type HBM2 HBM2