Hands-On: AMD's Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Vs Nvidia Titan Xp
AMD’S SPEC View pref VEGA Frontier Edition may be a graphics card for workstations, but gamers are just as eager to see what this GPU can tell us about the coming consumer version. AMD has already made a splash with its Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, and now Vega can help complete a high-performance puzzle. To show how the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition could benefit workstations, AMD officials gave us a hands-on preview of one of the first production cards.
What it is
We’ve published full details on the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (go. pcworld.com/rvf), but here’s the short story: The Frontier Edition is based on AMD’s new Vega core and features 16GB of advanced HBM2 RAM. And it’s a doozy in every way possible: The air-cooled card will cost $999, while the liquid-cooled version will cost an additional $500. The air-cooled card we saw has a 300-watt TDP, while the liquid-cooled one demands up to 375 watts.
AMD has maintained from the start that the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is not aimed at gamers, but rather at “data scientists, immersion engineers, and product designers.” What that translates to is a card that, in theory, gives professionals more performance for the money than the pricey Nvidia Quadro competition.
What we tested
AMD set up two PCs with identical everything: Ryzen 7 1800X CPUs, 32GB of DDR4/2400, SSDs, 4K panels, and even the same mouse and keyboard. Both machines ran Windows 10 Enterprise edition. One machine featured the current GeForce Titan Xp (go.pcworld.com/ gtx1), while the second machine ran one of the first air-cooled production-level Radeon Vega Frontier Edition cards AMD has built.
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