AMD Cayman
VS
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
AMD Cayman
VS
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
75
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Value for money (0-100)
9.53
TeraScale 3
Architecture
GCN 5.0
Cayman
Code name
Vega 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
27 June 2017 (4 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$999
$17.44
Price now
$645 (0.6x MSRP)
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Value for money
35.93
Cayman
GPU code name
Vega 10
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
4096
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Core clock speed
1382 MHz
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Boost Clock
1600 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
12,500 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
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Texture fill rate
409.6
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Floating-point performance
13,107 gflops
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
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Boost clock speed
1600 MHz
2,640 million
Number of transistors
12,500 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
300 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
267 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
HBM2
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Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
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Memory bus width
2048 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1890 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
483.8 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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HDMI
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $645 (0.6x MSRP))

Advantages of AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

64.32% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (4096 vs 1536)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cayman or AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition .

AMD Cayman versus AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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