AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition ships today for $999

Posted on Tuesday, June 27 2017 @ 18:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD officially ships its Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and the pricing appears to be a bit lower than the leaked pre-order prices from earlier this month. The air cooled model goes on sale today for $999 while the watercooled edition will follow sometime in Q3 2017 for $1,499.

These cards are for professional use, the gaming-class Radeon RX Vega models will be revealed on July 30th at SIGGRAPH.
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unleashed the first product based on its highly anticipated "Vega" graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture: Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition. Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is the world's first graphics card designed to empower the next generation of data scientists, game designers and visualization professionals, with up to 172 percent faster rendering performance than the comparable competitor card. Through its disruptive High Bandwidth Cache Controller, the cornerstone of the world's most advanced GPU memory architecture – HBM2 – Radeon Vega Frontier Edition expands the capacity of traditional GPU memory to 256TB, allowing users to tackle massive datasets with ease, and scored up to 33 percent faster than the competition in the DeepBench benchmark that measures the performance of basic operations involved in training deep neural networks.

"We're dedicating Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to all the visionaries and trailblazers who embrace new technologies to propel their industries forward to help solve mankind's greatest problems," said Ogi Brkic, senior director and general manager, Radeon Pro business, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. "With this powerful solution, we've brought the full weight of our new 'Vega' GPU architecture to bear, offering unmatched performance in the most demanding design, rendering, and machine intelligence workloads so that the world's top creators, data scientists and game developers can reach new frontiers in their fields."
VEGA Frontier Edition


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