AMD releases Radeon Vega Frontier Edition for 1071 euros

AMD has announced that the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be available for a suggested retail price of $999. Converted with VAT, that is about 1071 euros. In the third quarter, the water-cooled variant will follow for approximately 1607 euros.

The price quoted by AMD is lower than expected. Earlier this month, the video card appeared at webshops as a pre-order for a price from 1300 euros. A euro price has not been officially announced, AMD sells the air-cooled version for $ 999 and the water-cooled variant will come in the third quarter for a price of $ 1499. AMD previously announced that the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will go on sale June 27. Now, the company says the card is available from online stores in select regions. The card does not seem to be available yet in the Benelux.

Reviews of the video card have not yet appeared. PC World did publish a ‘hands-on’, in which comparisons with Nvidia’s Titan Xp are made. The website was allowed to try out the Vega card under AMD’s supervision. Benchmarks were run in CAD applications such as Catia and Creo, in which the Vega card is said to be 28 percent faster than its Nvidia counterpart. In SolidWorks, the difference would go up to 50 percent in favor of the AMD card, and in Cinebench, the Frontier Edition is 14 percent faster. AMD has also put the relevant benchmark results on its own website.

However, independent benchmarks have not yet appeared, nor have any game benchmarks been released yet. PC World was able to see the card in action in games, but without concrete benchmark figures. AMD previously emphasized that the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is not intended for gamers. The map is aimed at scientists, engineers and designers. The model has the full Vega GPU with 64 compute units and is equipped with 16GB hbm2. At the end of July, the RX Vega video cards for gamers will be announced at the Siggraph fair.