AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

General info


Place in our rating
not rated
Value for money (0-100)
no data
GCN 5.0
GPU code name
Vega 10
Turing TU102
Market segment
Release date
13 July 2017 (4 years ago)
27 August 2018 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)
Price now
no data

Technical specs


Pipelines / CUDA cores
Core clock speed
1382 MHz
1350 MHz
Boost clock speed
1600 MHz
1545 MHz
Number of transistors
12,500 million
18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
12 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)
375 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
Floating-point performance
13,107 gflops
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements


PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
267 mm
267 mm
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 8-pin



Memory type
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
11 GB
Memory bus width
2048 Bit
352 Bit
Memory clock speed
1890 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
483.8 GB/s
616.0 GB/s
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports


Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
G-SYNC support



VR Ready
no data

API support

APIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.

12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model

Competitors of Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled from NVIDIA

It seems that there's no NVIDIA equivalent for Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled. The nearest candidate is GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, however, it's 0% faster and higher by 0 positions in our rating.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled:

Competitors of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti from AMD

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce RTX 2080 Ti from AMD is Radeon RX 6800, which is slower by 5% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce RTX 2080 Ti:

Advantages of AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Wider memory bus (2048 vs 352 bit)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Much newer (27 August 2018 vs 13 July 2017)

More pipelines (4352 vs 4096)

Higher memory bandwidth (616 vs 483.8 GB/s)

Finer manufacturing process technology (12 vs 14 nm)

Lower power consumption (250W vs 375W), meaning that the rival with higher TDP might require a better cooler or other thermal solution.



VR Ready


Vulkan (a contemporary API for graphics acceleration, based on now-discontinued Mantle)

So, which one is the better GPU?

Technical City couldn't decide between AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


Cast your vote


AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

User rating


Advices and comments
