Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking150not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation19.70no data
Power efficiency7.94no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Gen. 12 Xe (2020)
GPU code nameVega 10iDG1LPDEV
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years ago)1 March 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores409696
Core clock speed1382 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rate409.6no data
Floating-point processing power13.11 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs256no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB3 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bitno data
Memory clock speed945 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.1.125-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 3 GB

Vega Frontier Edition has a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a workstation card while Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile is a notebook one.


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