PRESS RELEASE
Today, AMD unleashed the world’s fastest graphics card for machine learning development and advanced visualization workloads, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, available now.
Designed to empower the next generation of data scientists, game designers and visualization professionals, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition allows users to tackle massive datasets with ease, and scored up to 33 percent faster than the competition in the DeepBench benchmark measuring the performance of basic operations involved in training deep neural networks[i].
The first graphics card on the market to feature AMD’s “Vega” GPU architecture, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition together with the power of Radeon Pro Software enables data scientists, creators and developers to pursue new frontiers in their fields with:
- Unmatchedi performance and TCO in machine learning applications together with AMD’s open-source, fully scalable ROCm software platform. Developers can now use the power of the “Vega” architecture for machine learning algorithm development on the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition faster than with any other GPU on the marketi, before deploying it out to massive servers equipped with Radeon Instinct accelerators.
- Advanced photo realistic rendering performance to drive increasingly large and complex models and to deploy real-time visualization and physically-based rendering. Together with Radeon ProRender, AMD’s powerful physically-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition allows professionals to render assets up to 172 percent faster than the comparable competitor card [ii]. A visualization powerhouse, the GPU offers exceptional multi-GPU scaling, with 91 percent faster rendering using two Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPUs[iii].
- Accelerated game design and immersive workflows by providing a single GPU that is optimized for every stage of a game developer’s workflow, including everything from asset production to playtesting and performance optimization. With the Radeon Pro Settings user interface, users can seamlessly switch between “Radeon Pro Mode” and “Gaming Mode” to alternate between development on animation applications like Autodesk Maya and performance optimizations with free, open source tools available through AMD’s GPUOpen initiative.
- Groundbreaking VR content creation to provide the needed performance across all stages of VR content creation workflows, from the initial design stage to the final VR experience. AMD’s fastest Radeon VR Ready Creator graphics card ever, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition achieves the maximum possible score in the SteamVR benchmark, up to 21 percent higher than the multi-GPU Radeon Pro Duo solution[iv]. When used with Radeon Loom, creators can stitch high-resolution video in real time at up to 8K x 4K.
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards are available from etailers in select regions today with an SEP of $999 USD for the air-cooled edition. The water-cooled edition is expected to launch in Q3 with an SEP of $1499. You can find more information here.
Following the beta release of the Radeon ProRender plug-in for Blender and the Radeon ProRender add-in for SOLIDWORKS earlier this year, the first production versions are freely available for download here. AMD is also releasing a beta version of its Radeon ProRender Game Engine Importer, a tool that allows you to easily import your geometry and materials using Radeon ProRender from applications like SOLIDWORKS right into Unreal Engine and view them in VR. Check out the following blog to learn more.
For the best experience in both compute (ROCm) and professional graphics workflows, you can also download the latest drivers here.
[i] Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of May 15th 2017 with the Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition graphics card, Intel® Xeon E5 2640v4 2.4Ghz 10C/20T, Dual Socket, 32GB per socket, 64GB Total, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, ROCm 1.5, and OpenCL™ 1.2. The Nvidia Tesla P100, was tested on a system comprising of Intel® Xeon E5 2640v4 2.4Ghz 10C/20T, Dual Socket, 32GB per socket, 64GB Total, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with CuDNN 5.1, Driver 375.39 and Cuda version 8.0.61. When using the DeepBench Benchmark, Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition completed in 88.7 ms and the Nvidia Tesla P100 completed in 133.1 ms. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. VG-9.
[ii] Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition delivers up to 172% faster performance in Maya 2017 GPGPU tests than NVIDIA GeForce Titan Xp. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of May 12th, 2017 on a test system comprising of Intel E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50 GHz, 16GB DDR4 physical memory, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition / NVIDIA GeForce Titan Xp, AMD graphics driver 17.20/NVIDIA graphics driver 382.05 and Samsung 850 PRO 512G SSD. Benchmark Application: AMD Internal Benchmark for Autodesk Maya 2017. Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition score: 10.38. NVIDIA GeForce Titan Xpscore: 3.81. Performance Differential: (10.38-3.81)/3.81 = ~172.44% faster performance on Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPVG-008
[iii] 2x Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition is up to 91% faster rendering than 1x Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition when using Maya with the Radeon™ ProRender plug-in. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of May 26th, 2017 on a test system comprising of Ryzen™ 7 1800X @3.60 GHz, 32GB DDR4 physical memory, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition, AMD graphics driver 17.20 and Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD. Benchmark Application: Maya Radeon ProRender plug-in GPU rendering option. Measurement: Render time for the Helmet scene with 8x AA, HD720 output and 100 pass limit. 2 x Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition render time (seconds): 135. Single Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition render time (seconds): 258. Performance differential: (258-135)/135 = ~91.11% faster rendering on 2 x Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition. Scores are estimates based on AMD internal lab measurements/modelling and may vary. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPSW-002.
[iv] Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of May 24th, 2017 on a test system comprising of Intel E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50 GHz, 16GB DDR4 physical memory, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition/Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris)/ Radeon™ Pro WX 7100, AMD graphics driver 17.20 and LITEON 512GB SSD. Benchmark Application: SteamVRPerformance Test/VRMark. Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition SteamVRPerformance Test Score: 11. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) SteamVRPerformance Test Score: 9.1. Radeon™ Pro WX 7100 SteamVRPerformance Test Score: 6.4. Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition VRMark–Orange Room Score: 8157. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) VRMark–Orange Room Score: 6596. Radeon™ Pro WX 7100 VRMark–Orange Room Score: 6588. Scores are estimates based on AMD internal lab measurements/modelling and may vary. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPVG-009.
