AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

  • Around 15% higher core clock speed: 1382 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 409.6 GTexel / s vs 384.0 GTexel / s
  • Around 7% better floating-point performance: 13,107 gflops vs 12,288 gflops
Core clock speed 1382 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Boost clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Texture fill rate 409.6 GTexel / s vs 384.0 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 13,107 gflops vs 12,288 gflops

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100

  • Around 63% lower typical power consumption: 230 Watt vs 375 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 230 Watt vs 375 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
GPU 2: AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100

Name AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100
PassMark - G3D Mark 12470
PassMark - G2D Mark 732
Geekbench - OpenCL 65451
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 174.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3924.968
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 175.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1226.861
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13848
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13848
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Vega 10 Vega 10
Launch date 13 July 2017 10 July 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $1,489 $1,599
Place in performance rating not rated 209
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1600 MHz 1500 MHz
Core clock speed 1382 MHz 1200 MHz
Floating-point performance 13,107 gflops 12,288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 4096 4096
Texture fill rate 409.6 GTexel / s 384.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 375 Watt 230 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 12,500 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 483.8 GB / s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 Bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz 1890 MHz
Memory type HBM2 HBM2