Comparison of Radeon HD 8990 and Radeon Vega Frontier [S]ave
| Attribute |  Radeon Vega Frontier × |  Radeon HD 8990 × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2017 | 2013 |
| GPU brand | AMD | AMD |
| GPU name | Vega 10 | Aruba |
| Market | - | Desktop |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 1,382 | 1,050 |
| Turbo clock speed (MHz) | 1,600 | - |
| Is dual GPU | - | + |
| Model | Radeon Vega Frontier | Radeon HD 8990 |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 16,384 | 6,144 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 483.8 | 576 |
| Memory bus (bit) | 48 | 768 |
| Memory type | - | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 945 | 1,500 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,890 | 6,000 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 300 | - |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 102.4 | 100.8 |
| Render output processors | 64 | 96 |
| Texture mapping units | 256 | 320 |
| Shading units | 4,096 | 5,120 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 13,107 | 10,752 |
| Compute units | 64 | 80 |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 409.6 | 336 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Particle simulation (mInteraction/s) | 1591.1 | 566.58 |
| T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s) | 17.79 | 8.54 |
| Video composition (frames/s) | 181.46 | 125.5 |
| PassMark | 10,659 | 4,750 |
| PassMark Direct Compute | 7,371 | 2,785 |
| Face detection (mPixels/s) | 191.27 | 44.48 |
| Bitcoin mining (mHash/s) | 1415.99 | 470.24 |
| Ocean surface simulation (frames/s) | 3508.02 | 1984.65 |
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