AMD representatives invited colleagues for comparative testing of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and NVIDIA Titan Xp video game card. First, it was necessary to give the public at least the slightest idea of the speed of Vega in games. Secondly, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition participated in tests with native, professional drivers, and NVIDIA Titan Xp in serious applications remained alone with the game drivers. The Quadro P6000, which is a professional analogue of the NVIDIA Titan
Xp, has remained beyond comparison, although the price of such a solution frightens off "semi-professional" users - almost $ 6000 versus $ 1200 for the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.
AMD confirmed that the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition with a maintenance-free liquid cooling system has a higher TDP (375 W vs. 300 W) and a more comfortable temperature regime than the air-cooled version. At the same time, there was a somewhat obscure comment about the possibility of creating video cards based on Vega, capable of being satisfied with a single six-pin power connector. Obviously, they meant compact video gaming.
Rear panel Radeon Vega Frontier Edition has original "longitudinal" ventilation slots, three outputs DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0 are located in one row. Theoretically, this should allow equipping such a video card with a water block, which will reduce the occupied space to one expansion slot.
Under the third photo, undoubtedly, the text should contain ambiguous comments that "now AMD is above," but this illustration only allows you to compare the overall dimensions of the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and NVIDIA Titan Xp. AMD representatives explained that the final assembly of these accelerators is in California.
The results of an objective comparison of video cards in games to colleagues were banned by AMD, rightly saying that Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is not a game video card in its pure form. The authors of the review only referred to the fact that visually Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is not inferior to Titan Xp in some popular games, but in general we should expect a performance level somewhere between GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
But in professional applications AMD card was faster by up to 28-50%. In the same Cinebench R15 system based on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition beat the opponent by 14%. Again, it would be fairer to oppose to the Quadro P6000, but AMD chose to focus on the proximity of prices, rather than on the intended video cards use . The debut of Radeon RX Vega is scheduled for July 30 this year, and it will be a video card with 8 GB of HBM2 memory, and the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition memory more
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