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Release date: Q2 2017.

Average Bench: 86.4% (83rd of 714)

Based on 1,949 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6863 Model: Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPU is AMD's first graphics card with the new Vega architecture which features next-generation compute units (nCUs). AMD have designed Vega to handle the increasing data and computational demands from game creation to rendering simulations to video processing to AI. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition comes with 64 nCUs yielding 4096 stream processors with which it can process up to 13.1 TFLOPS. Also, it has a high-bandwidth cache controller and 16GB of ultra fast HBM2 RAM and supports an 8K display. This first Vega GPU is aimed at professional workstation users and although it is not a gaming card, its game performance benchmarks are underwhelming albeit good. It broadly matches the performance of NVIDIA's now year old GTX 1080, but at nearly twice the price ($550 for the 1080 versus a list price of $1000 for the air-cooled Vega Frontier Edition). There is also a water-cooled edition of the Vega Frontier which commands an additional $500 premium on the list price. There will be gaming variants of Vega based cards available shortly and, depending on their entry price, these may prove to be more interesting to the consumer/gamer market. [Jul '17 GPUPro]

Poor: 78%Average: 86.4% Great: 92%

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Very good average bench

The AMD Vega Frontier Edition averaged just 13.5% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the AMD Vega Frontier Edition near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 111fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 122fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Vega Frontier Edition is just 13.8%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Vega Frontier Edition performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 101fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 173fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,949 samples)
Rank 8386.4%
Min Avg Max
100 Lighting 111 119
85.4 Reflection 101 109
153 Parallax 173 189
90.7% 128 fps
Min Avg Max
79.2 MRender 87.8 91.6
111 Gravity 122 132
70.8 Splatting 80.8 125
78% 96.9 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AMD(1002 0B36) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1500 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 23.Q3.1
84.6% Excellent
Lighting 110
Reflection 101
Parallax 173
89% 128 fps
MRender 86
Gravity 128
Splatting 70.3
75% 94.6 fps
AMD(1002 6B76)
CLim: 1600 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 16GB, Driver: 23.Q3.1
82.3% Excellent
Lighting 106
Reflection 102
Parallax 163
86% 124 fps
MRender 84.8
Gravity 122
Splatting 71.6
74% 92.7 fps
AMD(1002 6B76)
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 31.0.21018.6011
50.2% Above average
Lighting 62.6
Reflection 62.3
Parallax 63
51% 62.6 fps
MRender 59.5
Gravity 59.4
Splatting 59.6
49% 59.5 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $1000 @ launch in Jun '17)
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AMD(1002 6B76) 98% 86% ± 4%
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AMD(1002 0B36) 2% 84% ± 3%
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Gaming
Gaming 88%
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Desktop
Desktop 101%
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Workstation
Workstation 81%
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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z390-A - $175

CPU
Core i7-9700KIntel  $252Bench 97%, 550,833 samples9,151x
Core i9-9900KIntel  $412Bench 98%, 354,223 samples6,185x
Core i5-9600KIntel  $155Bench 93%, 321,194 samples4,119x
GPU
Vega Frontier EditionAMD  $1,000Bench 86%, 1,949 samples1x
SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples1,555x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples1,321x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples1,122x
RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $63Bench 85%, 346,786 samples1,268x
CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 92%, 92,358 samples929x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples928x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 45% - Average Total price: $1,585

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GPUPro
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USA-User
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Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

2 months ago.

DEU-User
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5,743

Excellent

3 years ago.

much better video rendering in crossfire

TUR-User
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5,522

Excellent

3 years ago.

AS FAST AS HELL AND BETTER THAN NVIDIA QUADRO

RUS-User
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4,776

Excellent

5 years ago.

gtx 1080 performance, but with 16gb vram

HUN-User
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3,397

Excellent

3 years ago.

+ GTX 1080/Vega 64 performance in games, TITAN Xp perf. in GPGPU, can reach Quadro P5000's perf. in CAD/DCC apps. + 16 GB dedicated VRAM (33% more than on a TITAN Xp, not to mention HBCC, but you need enough system RAM to benefit from that, at least 32 GB). + Stable drivers. +/- Acceptable noise levels. With factory settings and no OC, the Air-Cooled Vega FE it's not even louder than a reference GTX 1080. - High power consumption and temperatures under load.

KOR-User
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3,206

Poor

4 years ago.

well .. this price buy now i pride buyed rtx 2070

HRV-User
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2,322

Excellent

5 years ago.

1070 IS BETTER???? IN???? WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS BENCHMARK SITE???? WHO SAY THAT INSINE STUPID LIES????

VEN-User
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1,729

Poor

6 years ago.

double core than the 1080, 300w tdp and a too low cost/benefice (1000$¡)

GPUPro
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1,637

Good

6 years ago.

ColdSpy
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330

Average

4 years ago.

Targeted toward prosumers, this GPU has 16GB of HBM2 VRAM which is enough to handle heavyweight rendering which requires more than even 11GB of VRAM which is found on flagship Nvidia cards currently. This GPU performs similarly as Vega 64 yet priced double of the Vega 64 price which makes this GPU a poor choice for gamers.

RavenBailiff
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314

Terrible

4 years ago.

Never really had a purpose. Never was a good value.

Crazycatman
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18

Poor

5 years ago.

Better options than this. Also, still high power draw.

Hildegardt
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10

Terrible

6 years ago.

Overpriced with bad energy efficiency and the worst cooling system in the world. Its as loud as a hair dryer under load.

mihen
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2

Excellent

3 years ago.

How are you keeping it under 40c with +200% Power Limit? I am running super hot with 360mm rads at only +50% Power Limit.

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