Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs GeForce GTX TITAN X

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Memory: 16384Mb HBM2DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Jun 2017
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
GeForce GTX TITAN X
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX TITAN X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN X

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega Frontier EditionGeForce GTX TITAN X
GPU NameVega 10 (Vega 10 XT)vsGM200 (GM200-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size484 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors12,500 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders4096vs3072
Compute Units64vs24
Core clock1500 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs96
TMUs256vs192

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega Frontier EditionGeForce GTX TITAN X
Memory TypeHBM2vsGDDR5
Bus Width2048 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed945 MHz
1890 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size16384 Mbvs12288 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega Frontier EditionGeForce GTX TITAN X
TDP300 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date27 Jun 2017vs17 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
    102.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
    409.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    192.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
    483.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
    13107.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    6144.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better