Radeon Vega Frontier Edition LCS and 4096 Shader Processors

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
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.