VEGA FE preview - 3C

AMD has given an exclusive first look at Radeon Frontier to PCWorld. They were
allowed to test it in few synthetic benchmarks like SPECviewperf or Cinebench
OpenGL, however pure gaming benchmarks were out of the question. Although the
y were allowed to play Doom, Prey and Sniper Elite 4, no detailed performance
metrics were revealed. PCWorld describes:

While AMD didn’t want to reveal any gaming performance, it agreed to give us
a taste of how Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performs in gaming. So we switched
out the 8K Dell panel for a pair of Acer 34-inch, wide-aspect 3440× 1440 p
ane
ls, and AMD let us play games on both the Titan Xp and the Radeon Vega Frontie
r Edition.

To show it wasn’t just an API advantage, AMD let us play Doom using Vulkan, P
rey using DirectX 11, and Sniper Elite 4 using DirectX 12. All of the games we
re set to their highest game settings, and we played at the native resolution
of the panels. Although the identical panels were FreeSync-based, FreeSync was
switched off on the AMD GPU.

[…]

From what we’ve seen, that concern may be misplaced. It appears to be plenty
fast and, at least for the settings and the games we played, indistinguishable
from the competition. Our original estimates after seeing Radeon Vega Frontie
r Edition with Sniper Elite 4 at Computex still hold: The cards appears to be
faster than Nvidia’s GTX 1080 and close to that of a GTX 1080 Ti card.

As for synthetic benchmarks, we are looking at 15 to 50% higher performance th
an TITAN Xp:

In the given time we had to run the tests, we saw the Frontier Edition outscor
e the Titan Xp by 28 percent in Catia and Creo to 50 percent in SolidWorks. We
also ran Maxon’s Cinebench, a popular OpenGL benchmark, in which the Frontie
r Edition was about 14 percent faster. The numbers echo what we already knew a
bout the Frontier Edition, but this time we could see the performance demonstr
ations live.

Interesting tidbits from the videos:

Vega can run on 6-pin power connector, but it wasn’t specified if they were t
alking about Frontier or RX Vega;
Frontier will support gaming, but to take the full benefit from game optimizat
ions, RX Vega is still recommended.
Frontier will run in multi-GPU configurations, but it was not designed for mul
ti-GPU gaming;
Air-cooled and Liquid-cooled (gold edition) of Frontier have the same PCB desi
gn, although Liquid edition has higher TDP (375W vs 300W) and better operating
temperatures;
DIP switches on the back will allow you to change the color of the GPU Tach LE
Ds;
AMD Rep did not want to reveal what the color of RX Vega will be;
RX Vega will be launched on July 30th at SIGGRAP

R15比較：
https://goo.gl/MX9e7F
其他比較圖：
https://goo.gl/ppTwvh
PCWORLD搶先測試，連接內有影片

重點:
1.VEGAFE綜合性能比Titan xp高15到50%
2.rx vega7月30發布
3.VEGA 可以單6pin
(補充，網站圖片是雙八，是指VEGA可以做到單6)
4.有開關能讓你變更GPU TECH LED顏色
5.FE可以玩遊戲，但還是推薦RX VEGA
6.Catia及creo強泰坦xp 28%
7.solidworks強泰坦xp50%
8.pcworld玩過遊戲後，他們估計遊戲性能比1080強接近1080ti

資料來源：
https://goo.gl/9R5gQN

心得：
遊戲性能不說，專業卡部分打爆泰坦XP,
跌破鄉民眼鏡。

補一下國外預購價格:
空冷:1199美元
含水冷：1799美元
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