AMD
$1,000
AMD
 $1,000 

Release date: Q2 2017.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 93,625 user samples
1,949 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 92% AMD(1002 6B76)
Worst Bench: 78% AMD(1002 6B76)
Poor: 78% Great: 92%
SPEED RANK: 83rd / 714
91,676 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 94% AMD(1002 6B76)
Worst Bench: 77% AMD(1002 6B76)
Poor: 77% Great: 94%
SPEED RANK: 82nd / 714
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed
86.4 % 86.6 % +0%
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
111 fps 111 fps
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
101 fps 108 fps Slightly better reflection handling.
+7%
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)
87.8 fps 92.3 fps Slightly faster multi rendering.
+5%
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)
122 fps 132 fps Slightly faster NBody calculation.
+8%
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
119 fps 122 fps +3%
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
109 fps 114 fps +5%
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere)
91.6 fps 95.4 fps +4%
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy)
132 fps 143 fps Slightly faster peak NBody calculation.
+8%
Market Share
Based on 67,453,385 GPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0 % 0.02 % Insanely higher market share.
+∞%
Value
Value For Money
20.5 % 51.3 % Hugely better value.
+151%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
53 % 53 %
Price
Price (score)
$1,000 $400 Much cheaper.
+60%
Age
Newest
81 Months 80 Months +1%
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
189 fps 197 fps +4%
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
125 fps Much faster peak complex splatting.
+59%
78.4 fps
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
173 fps 178 fps +3%
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
80.8 fps Slightly faster complex splatting.
+7%
75.8 fps
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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]

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The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 is built on 14 nm silicon and contains next-generation compute units (nCUs). Each NCU houses 64 steam processors, of which the Vega 64 has 4096 compared to 3584 in the Vega 56. The architecture also employs 8GB of second generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). At launch (two years ago) AMD described this as the most significant leap in their GPU architecture for the last five years. We recently ran the Vega 56 through our EFps lab which showed that in today’s market the Vega series of cards “could” be tempting, at around the $200 mark. (Vega 56 results here)  [Nov '19 GPUPro]

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We calculate effective 3D speed which estimates gaming performance for the top 12 games. Effective speed is adjusted by current prices to yield value for money. Our figures are checked against thousands of individual user ratings. The customizable table below combines these factors to bring you the definitive list of top GPUs. [GPUPro]

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