Our friends over at PCPerspective have taken several pictures showing the PCB of the new Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics card from AMD. The pictures reveal the GPU's PCB design and several interesting new aspects with it. Apart from that they have taken a few pictures of the cooler as well.


As you can see, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is based on a quite an empty PCB that has been extended to what could be called “standard size” for a high-end graphics card, in order to allow fitting a larger cooler that can deal with the heat generated by the chip. The cooler on this GPU features a vapour chamber design base plate, which carries the heat from the GPU and the HBM2 memory chips to a dense copper fin stack, which in-turn is being cooled by a radial (blower-type) fan. Compared to the NVIDIA Titan Xp, the heatsink used on the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition appears to be quite a bit smaller. Actually it appears that this cooler shares quite a few similarities with the one AMD used on the reference design RX 480.

Browsing the specifications of the Vega chip we find a whopping 4096 CUDA cores, 256 TMUs and 64 ROPs. For comparison reasons, the TITAN X Pascal features 3584 CUDA cores, 224 TMUs and 96 ROPs, while the AMD Fury X sports 3584 CUDA cores, 224 TMUs and 64 ROPs. Checking the PCB, we can see a lot of free space thanks to the HBM2 memory sitting next to the GPU itself. Compared to the GDDR5/5X based graphics cards, the footprint on this card is noticeably smaller and it reminds us a lot of the Fury X.





Source: Pcper