Monday, June 26th 2017
Vega Frontier Ed Beats TITAN Xp in Compute, Formidable Game Performance: Preview
PC World posted a preview of an AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition graphics card, and reported some interesting observations about the card ahead of its review NDA. The tech publication compared the air-cooled Pro Vega Frontier Edition against NVIDIA's fastest consumer graphics card, the TITAN Xp. It did reveal performance numbers of the two cards in two compute-heavy tests, SPECViewPerf 12.1 and Cinebench R15 (OpenGL test), where the Vega FE significantly outperforms the TITAN Xp. This shouldn't come as a shocker because AMD GPUs tend to have a strong footing with GPU compute performance, particularly with open standards.
It's PC World's comments on the Vega card's gaming performance that might pique your interest. In its report, the publication comments that the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition offers gaming performance that is faster than NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080, but slightly slower than its GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. To back its statement, PC World claims to have run the Vega Frontier Edition and TITAN Xp in "Doom" with Vulkan API, "Prey" with DirectX 11, and "Sniper Elite 4" with DirectX 12. You must also take into account that the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition could command a four-figure price, in the league of the TITAN Xp; and that gamers should look forward to the Radeon RX Vega series, bound for a late-July/early-August launch, at price-points more appropriate to their competitive positioning. The RX Vega is also expected to have 8 GB of memory compared to 16 GB on the Frontier Edition. Watch PC World's video presentation in the source link below.
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PC World, VideoCardz
It's PC World's comments on the Vega card's gaming performance that might pique your interest. In its report, the publication comments that the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition offers gaming performance that is faster than NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080, but slightly slower than its GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. To back its statement, PC World claims to have run the Vega Frontier Edition and TITAN Xp in "Doom" with Vulkan API, "Prey" with DirectX 11, and "Sniper Elite 4" with DirectX 12. You must also take into account that the Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition could command a four-figure price, in the league of the TITAN Xp; and that gamers should look forward to the Radeon RX Vega series, bound for a late-July/early-August launch, at price-points more appropriate to their competitive positioning. The RX Vega is also expected to have 8 GB of memory compared to 16 GB on the Frontier Edition. Watch PC World's video presentation in the source link below.
77 Comments on Vega Frontier Ed Beats TITAN Xp in Compute, Formidable Game Performance: Preview
Prey (is DX11 anyway)
Sniper Elite DX12
Cherry. That's all.
However, not too long now, only another month and a bit. And a bit more. As mentioned too, AMD have been humping Nvidia in compute for ages now on their gaming based cards. But to be realistic, I don't use compute to game.
the fact that there is such a lack of hype from AMD is usually not a good thing. If it was faster than a titanXP or a 1080ti there would be a ton of "benchdemos" by AMD prior to release.
Still it's going to be a welcome card for those with Freesync monitors or looking to upgrade from their current 580/480 setups.
Even the Maxwell based card beats this in compute. So on hardware level, the pro drivers make Maxwell better than Vega. Obviously the 6000 range is teh Gx100 (or GX200) core but either way, this M6000 has only got 3072 core count (1000 less than VEGA).
Not sure what RTG are getting at. Titan x/p/xp ali-docious has always been a stupidly expensive gaming card with a limited appeal for compute. We all know that. If you want to show your compute prowess, use the M125 card, not Vega FE. I assume RTG feel the FE is the same as the Titan (i.e. a rip off for the consumer), if so, welcome to the club RTG/AMD, you're about to piss off your fans.
You folks do understand now don't you? This is AMD's Titan card. And they'll charge you for it heavily, just like Nvidia do. So, do we expect all those who vehemently denegrated Nvidia for their pricing are going to come out and have a shot at AMD???
The black shoe called pot is on the other kettle foot now. Or something.
If I put 10 8-pin connectors on an RX480 the TPD will be through the roof, consumption however stays the same.
but yeah, stop posting unrelated stuff.
Btw, prey is neither nvidia nor AMD optimized from the benches I've seen, so that's the perfect benchmark really considering most will play about half nvidia favouring titles and half AMD favouring titles right now and in the future more dx12 (aka vega favouring titles) wilm be released as well, so in the future it will get a slight boost over pascal.
Let's wait for rx vega results before drawing any final conclusions, but faster than a 1080 is good enough for me!
Its about specific benchmark results.
If you would have said something like "well should the TDP be an indication of actual power consumption, then this..."victory" is really not all that impressive" then sure.
But you just say "hey it uses a lot of power, its not looking good" which is just in no way linked to this comparison at all.
Neither the titan Xp, nor vega FE are meant for specialized pro stuff btw. Wx7100 or low-end quadros might beat them there.
I want the days of leapfrogging back, then we'll see new stuff at the same or cheaper prices than the current stuff. Can't wait. :rolleyes:
Think about it, if they make fantastic sales by not being quite as good as their competition, then what's to motivate them to beat their competition?
When/where did they say that? Because I didn't hear nor read such a statement.