Last night we reported about the new announcements from AMD. The 'mission intelligent' enterprise graphics card is fitted with 16 GB of HBM2 graphics memory and has a memory bandwidth if 480 GB/sec. We also have new photos showing a water-cooled model.
The card has 64 compute units x 64 shader processors is 4096 Shader processors. They will perform in the 13 TFLOP (fp32) performance bracket gaming wise, which is almost half higher than AMD's Fiji-based R9 Fury X. If you look closer at the photos you'll spot two cards, thus two models. Both would get two 8-pin power header, these cards are going to need some power alright. The gold colored card is the liquid cooled version as you can see the tubing. You'll note that the card does not have a fan and thus that would be a full-block cooling solution.
| RX 570 | RX 580 | R9 Fury X | Radeon Vega Frontier Edition |
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| GPU | Polaris 10 Pro | Polaris 10 XT | Fiji XT | Vega 10 |
| Process node | 14nm | 14nm | 28nm | 14nm |
| Shaders Per CU | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Stream Processors | 2048 | 2304 | 4096 | 4096 |
| Performance (FP32) | 5.095 TFLOPs | 6.175 TFLOPs | 8.6TFLOPs | 13 TFLOPs |
| Performance (FP16) | 5.095 TFLOPs | 6.175 TFLOPs | 8.6TFLOPs | 25 TFLOPs |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 32 | 64 | 64 |
| Texture Mapping units | 126 | 144 | 256 | 256 |
| Memory Interface | 256-bit | 256-bit | 4096-bit | 2048-bit |
| Memory | 4/8GB GDDR5 | 4/8GB GDDR5 | 4GB HBM | 16GB HBM2 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 224GB/s | 256GB/s | 512GB/s | 480GB/s |
AMD's Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will offer boost clock speeds that are around 1.5 GHz. That liquid cooler version likely a notch higher, who knows perhaps the 1.6 GHz marker is viable. The photos could be perceived as the reference model cards, yet with another color. It was stated that they will become available in June. At this point there have been no consumer announcements regarding Radeon RX Vega graphics cards. From the looks of it, the announcements will be made during Computex.
