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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
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VRAM
16 GB
CUDA
4,096
FP32
13.11 TF
Bandwidth
483.8 GB/s
TDP
300W
Boost
1600 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute13.11 TFLOPS13%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/s27%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity16 GB50%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units4,09619%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency14/10024%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy11,160pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)4,860pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)1,456spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute57,600pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming31
Ray tracing27
AI / Compute24
Creator / 3D28
Power efficiency14
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 27 fps
1080p
37
1440p
27
4K
17
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 38 fps
1080p
51
1440p
38
4K
24
Alan Wake 2avg 22 fps
1080p
30
1440p
22
4K
14
Forza Horizon 5avg 39 fps
1080p
53
1440p
39
4K
25
Baldur's Gate 3avg 32 fps
1080p
43
1440p
32
4K
20
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners like the huge memory buffer for pro workloads. The usual gripe is it runs hot and loud under load, and drivers were flaky for gaming.
Pros
- Giant frame buffer for heavy tasks
- Runs hot but handles big loads
- Quiet under moderate gaming loads
- Fast for its era in compute
Cons
- Drivers were never gaming optimized
- Runs hot under sustained heavy load
- Noisy stock cooler at full speed
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 4,096
- TMUs
- 256
- ROPs
- 64
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
Memory
- Size
- 16 GB
- Type
- HBM2
- Bus width
- 2048-bit
- Bandwidth
- 483.8 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 945 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1382 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1600 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 13.11 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 13.11 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 102 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 409.6 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 300W
- Suggested PSU
- 550W
- Power connectors
- 2x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 267 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_1)
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.1.125
Verdict
Our verdict on the Vega Frontier Edition
The AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a first-gen workstation card that runs hot and loud while offering massive memory for compute tasks.
Get it if you need a pro workstation card for compute tasks and can find one cheap used. Skip it if you want a modern gaming GPU, as it lacks gaming drivers and runs hot.
Buy it if…
- You need lots of video memory for compute but not gaming.
- You are building a vintage workstation for early machine learning experiments.
- You collect rare AMD professional cards from the late 2010s.
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