Tuesday, July 18th 2017
Liquid-cooled AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition Power Draw Tested
The liquid-cooled variant of AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition has some very lofty power requirements. Although it draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, which along with the PCI-Express slot total a power output of 375W, the card was tested by PC Perspective, to be overdrawing power from the power connectors, with a peak power draw of a staggering 440W, with its power limit raised by 25% to stabilize a 7% overclock. At its stock clock speeds, however, the card remains well under the 375W limit, drawing around 350W of power.
The liquid-cooled Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition has its TDP rated at 375W, compared to 300W of the air-cooled variant. Given its performance being somewhere between the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti, these figures don't bode particularly well for the upcoming Radeon RX Vega family of consumer graphics cards, unless AMD pulls a rabbit out of its hat with pricing. The RX Vega series is expected to be announced on July 27.
Source:
PC Perspective
The liquid-cooled Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition has its TDP rated at 375W, compared to 300W of the air-cooled variant. Given its performance being somewhere between the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti, these figures don't bode particularly well for the upcoming Radeon RX Vega family of consumer graphics cards, unless AMD pulls a rabbit out of its hat with pricing. The RX Vega series is expected to be announced on July 27.
59 Comments on Liquid-cooled AMD Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition Power Draw Tested
Where is that 4x efficiency over polaris architecture
I personally had high hopes for Vega.
Not to mention as history is yet again repeating itself a new gpu generation is right around the corner (volta with the gtx 2080 or whatever it's called) and in the past it was Maxwell with the gtx 980.
that is just a crazy power Draw...
The GTX980Ti came out June 1, 2015, the GTX1070 that mostly beats it June 10, 2016
more then a year later.
Now you suggest Nvidia could/should launch a GTX1170 to that would beat a GTX1080ti about 6 months after the 1080ti's release.
Im sure you can understand where the problem lies with that suggestion.
Also, stop making silly assumptions, I did not say anything suggesting instead rewarding lazy amd, there is a 3rd option you know, not buying anything new for a while.....
anything is overclocable if you are capable enough. Back in the old days i had got a 15% overclock from a LOCKED MULTIPLIER CPU.
Curious to see how that would compare to Fury X trifire in performance and power usage....
This is YOUR comment:
"Right now AMD has only reach Maxwell's level of efficiency and Nvidia is readying Volta architecture, imagine GTX 1170 that could be released anytime Nvidia felt like it, perform at 1080ti performance while chewing 1/3 the power of VEGA RX, selling for 450usd a pop"
so I responded how I would not understand anyone buying any Nvidia product any more for several hundereds of dollars when they have a cheaper one in 6 months already.
Honestly man..... just wtf.