Radeon vega water-borne frontier suffers from overclock, reaches 440w

We have new information on the Radeon Vega Frontier and I can tell you that it does not look good for the new Vega 10 silicon, which is the top of the range for Sunnyvale. The water-soaked version of the card has been overclocked showing serious power and Throttling issues.

Radeon Vega Frontier: interior and specifications

Radeon Vega Frontier is based on the Vega 10 core, the most powerful manufactured by AMD to date and which continues to use the 14nm GF process. Silicon is made up of 64 NCUs (Next Generation Compute Units) that add up to no less than 4096 stream processors along with 16 GB of HBM2 memory with a 2, 048-bit interface and a bandwidth of 484 GB / s. With these characteristics it is capable of offering a power of 2 5 TFLOPS in FP16 and 13 TFLOPS in FP32.

The design of the card is excellent with a plate that covers the PCB of the card to improve the cooling of the components and above all to protect them to the maximum. The liquid cooling system is very complex so AMD has used one of the best solutions it had to supply, they do not want to have problems with the heat generated. The card includes an LED lighting system that indicates the card's charge level.

This cooling system carries the seal of Cooler Master, a fairly common partner in AMD in recent years with the Radeon R9 295X2 and the Fury X, both passed through water. Includes two pumps to best cool both the GPU and HBM2 memory and the VRM system. This system is supported by a 120mm radiator and is quieter than that of the Radeon R9 Fury X, something excellent to know. Remember that the TDP of the card is 375W so the cooling system has a lot of work to do.

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Overclocking and performance

Radeon Vega Frontier with liquid cooling includes a switch to adjust the TDP to 300W or 350W, only in the second case is it capable of reaching its maximum frequency of 1600 MHz although it suffers specific drops to 1528 MHz. If we adjust the TDP to 300W the frequencies They range from 1528 MHz to 1440 MHz, a higher range than the over-the-air version that ranges from 1440 MHz to 1348 MHz.

We look at the performance in Dirt Rally and things do not look good for Vega 10, adjusting the TDP of the card to 350W and overclocking it, maximum frequencies of 1712 MHz are reached with occasional drops to 1637 MHz, something that is notably situated above 1600 MHz of stock. This translates into a 13-15% performance improvement in 4K resolution, a significant improvement but one that brings power consumption to 440W with a level of performance comparable to that of the GeForce GTX 1080 (180W).

Source: wccftech