Friday, June 16th 2017
AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition TDP and Pricing Revealed
AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition goes on sale later this month (26 June). It is designed to provide a "gateway" to the "Vega" GPU architecture for graphics professionals and game developers alike, with the consumer graphics product, the Radeon RX Vega, is bound for late-July/early-August. Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition, being a somewhat "enterprise-segment" product, was expected to have slightly lower TDP than its consumer-graphics sibling, since enterprise-segment implementations of popular GPUs tend to have slightly restrained clock speeds. Apparently, AMD either didn't clock the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition low, or the chip has extremely high TDP.
According to specifications put out by EXXACT, a retailer which deals with enterprise hardware, the air-cooled variant of the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition has a TDP rated at 300W, while its liquid-cooled variant has its TDP rated as high as 375W. To put this in perspective, the consumer-segment TITAN Xp by NVIDIA has its TDP rated at 275W. EXXACT is claiming big performance advantages in certain enterprise benchmarks such as SPECVIEWPERF and Cinebench. In other news, the air-cooled Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition is reportedly priced at USD $1,199; while the liquid-cooled variant is priced at $1,799. Based on the 14 nm "Vega 10" silicon, the Pro Vega Frontier Edition features 4,096 stream processors and 16 GB of HBM2 memory across a 2048-bit memory interface.
According to specifications put out by EXXACT, a retailer which deals with enterprise hardware, the air-cooled variant of the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition has a TDP rated at 300W, while its liquid-cooled variant has its TDP rated as high as 375W. To put this in perspective, the consumer-segment TITAN Xp by NVIDIA has its TDP rated at 275W. EXXACT is claiming big performance advantages in certain enterprise benchmarks such as SPECVIEWPERF and Cinebench. In other news, the air-cooled Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition is reportedly priced at USD $1,199; while the liquid-cooled variant is priced at $1,799. Based on the 14 nm "Vega 10" silicon, the Pro Vega Frontier Edition features 4,096 stream processors and 16 GB of HBM2 memory across a 2048-bit memory interface.
123 Comments on AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition TDP and Pricing Revealed
I mean, a 100 watt difference only means like $8.76 a year more if it's working 4 hours a day at 100%, which realistically isn't near that. (that's for what I pay for electricity).
someone who pays $0.25 per kWh will only be like $36 per year for 100 watts. (3$ per month).
If you can afford the card you can afford that increase (IMO).
For rendering, at 20/7 usage, it would be $180 per year, if you're using it for income, $180 per year is only $15 per month. easily justifiable.
Oh wait..amd did that already with 295x2...and that rad got HOT!!!!
But cooling method is irrelevant really, at 100% the card will put out the same heat air cooled or watercooled. It's just the efficiency that changes.
(I have a 290X lightning that pulls 450W ALONE from the wall (680 total power draw from the wall with a 7700K), I know all about heat xD.
And derp the heatloadload doesnt change with air or water... you really think that was the point there duality????
Get a lower ambient, will improving cooling for the card, without being noisier.
Allow your card to be hotter than your target temp, this will increase the delta, thus enable it to dissipate more heat with the same fan speed, won't be noisier either.Nope, and I hope you didn't think that's what I was saying. That's why i said efficiency. Watercooling dissipates the same heat at air cooled, but more efficiently, meaning faster and better.
Get a lower ambient???!!! Yeah, i want to lower my AC 2C to make a 2c difference...costs keep adding up!!!
You say it doesnt cost much more (power wise and that small nugget is true), yet here we are 'discussing' $250+ solutions and lowering ambient to mitigate the noise...
Too expensive to produce for some pathetic performance. VEGA is DOA. Move along people. Hype train next stop: VEGA20
Edit: Is power usage the primary factor when deciding to buy such a card? Undoubtedly no. But using more power than another product to deliver roughly the same results is definitely not an advantage. And it's also not something to be ignored, like you think it is.
It's not just about the cost of electricity. It's also about the actual current needed for the building, certificates and so on.
Moreover, I can understand this is not such a great issue in sparsely populated US and Canada, but in dense european and asian countries it's a lot more important.
BTW: here you can find some figures about electricity usage per employee. Not many countries are listed, but Germany vs US is already pretty educative.
g20-energy-efficiency.enerdata.net/indicators/unit-electricity-consumption-of-services-per-employee.html
The vega pro cards for the imac pro should be more efficiënt and may have a few features making it better for certain professionals. Pro gpu's have niches as well.
Also, where is the MI25?
p.s The 500 bucks difference between the AC and WC the WC edition better have some miracle of an AIO..