AMD Radeon Vega FE vs NVIDIA Titan XP: Quick Comparison
Jul. 3, 2017AMD Radeon Vega FE vs NVIDIA Titan XP: Specs Comparison
Before we start comparing the GPUs, let’s take a look at how their specifications compare:
Let’s start with the upcoming Vega Frontier Edition. Probably the first thing that you’ll notice is the weirdblue/yellow color scheme.While it may appeal to some, personally, I would still prefer the black/red combo of AMD’s R9 Fury X. Nonetheless, the craftsmanship makes up for most of it. The metal shroud and back plate have anexcellent brushed metal textureand look to them and even the edges of the PCB are rounded. Ayellow R logo cuberests on the back corner, illuminating the hardware in an elegant light. The top of the card features theRadeon branding with the same yellow backlight, all of which was specially designed and finished in California.
Coming to the Titan XP, it shares the same design as it’s predecessor- the Titan X. It comes in theblack/grey combo, with a tad hint of the NVIDIA’s signature green here and there. The overall design and aesthetics of the GPU make it stand apart, giving it apowerful look, something that does indeed compliment its gaming performance, considering the fact that Titan XP is the reigning king of the gaming market. While NVIDIA did remove the GTX branding from the original Titan X, there’s still aback-lit GeForce GTX logoon Titan XP’s top edge, in the aforementionedsignature green.
A prosumer is a person who buys electronic goods that are of a standard between those aimed at consumers and professionals. AMD has gone ahead by issuing an official statement that theVega Frontier Edition is a prosumer device, while the RX Vega will be a consumer product, manufactured primarily for the gaming market.
TheTitan XP,on the other hand, is aconsumer product in itself, made for the gamers especially.NVIDIA has for long been the supreme manufacturer of gaming cards, and the Titan XP was another product that extended their lead. It is, in fact, the best gaming GPU on the market currently.
While benchmark tests only tell a part of the story, they do push the devices to their maximum limits, to see the best that the device can offer. The folks at PCWorld had tested out the two GPUs and according to their reports, theAMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition certainly outperforms the Titan XP in terms of pure performance.Image Credits – Guru3d.com
Using a test environment of AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPUs, 32GB of DDR4/2400, SSDs, 4K panels, and a Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, the 2 GPUs were put against one another, and tested on the popular benchmarking apps Catia, Creo, SolidWorks, and Cinebench.
The Frontier Edition outscored the Titan XP by28 percent on both Catia and Creo, and the difference jumped to a whopping50 percent in SolidWorks. To apply more salt to the burns, AMD’s latest offering beat the reigning king by almost14 percent in Maxon’s Cinebench.
While NVIDIA’s Titan XP is one of the most powerful GPUs out there, it is essentially only a consumer device. What that means is that it can only work on consumer drivers, or in other words, mainstream devices. The 16nm GPUdoes not work on workstation-class systems, rendering it obsolete for them. As a result, workstation users desiring the Titan XP performance have to resort to a NVIDIA Quadro P6000, which costs nearly $6000.
AMD has carefully analyzed the workstation market and has come to the conclusion that most prosumers that use a workstation often end-up buying workstation-class systems with low-level graphic cards, something which they try replacing later on. This is one issue that the Frontier Edition aims to tackle, and in my opinion, it practically even wins. TheAMD Vega Frontier Edition runs natively on workstation-class systemsand offers workstation performances evenbetter than that of the Titan XPwhile saving a noticeable $200 (or $5200, when we talk about workstations).
It should be noted that AMD went out and said that the Vega Frontier Edition is a prosumer device, hence it’s clear that ithasn’t been developed with gaming in mind.Instead, it has been created with the idea of game development in mind, something that requires pure performance rather than actual gaming performance. That being said, the Vega Frontier Edition is not shy in showcasing its power when it comes to handling games. TheTitan XP, on the other hand, is the well acknowledgedsupreme leader, which I shall repeat, is thebest gaming cardon the market right now.
The two GPUs were put to test onDoomusing Vulkan,Preyusing DirectX 11, andSniper Elite 4using DirectX 12. While theTitan XP clearly outperformed the Vega Frontier Edition, the Vega did hold its back, showing that it is clearly at par with the once supreme king – the NVIDIA GTX 1080 ti. The results are practically great when considering that theVega Frontier Edition is NOT a gaming card technically, but instead, a workstation powerhouse.
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So, are you gonna go for the Vega Frontier Edition or the mighty Titan XP? Or would you take my word for it, and wait till the launch of RX Vega? Make sure to let us know, by dropping a few words in the comments section down below.
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