AMD shows Radeon Vega Frontier Edition with 16GB hbm2

AMD has shown its first video card with Vega GPU. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be available at the end of June. It is not yet known what the video card will cost, but AMD is targeting scientists and designers.

Raja Koduri, chief executive of Radeon Technology Group, presented the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition during AMD’s Financial Analyst Day. He states that the video card is intended for people who ‘want to embrace new technology’. The Frontier Edition is aimed at scientists, engineers and designers.

AMD does not mention a price, but with that target group it is probably a very expensive video card, which is not intended for gamers. AMD has not disclosed many specifications, Koduri only released that the video card is equipped with 16GB of HBM2 memory.

In a slide, AMD compares the performance of the first Radeon Vega video card with its own Radeon Fury X. In fp32 calculations, which are relevant for games, the new card is 1.5 times faster than the former top model. The Vega card hits a score of 13tflops.

AMD is likely to announce more details about Vega during a presentation at Computex on May 31. The manufacturer may also announce Radeon RX Vega video cards for gamers.

Update: AMD has put a page online on its Radeon website with more details of the Vega Frontier Edition graphics card. For example, the manufacturer reports that the card has a GPU with 64 compute units and a memory bandwidth of 480GB/s. An image also shows a water-cooled variant of the video card.