Hopefully you have already read up on my review of the new Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics card; it is full of interesting information about the gaming and professional application performance.

But I thought it would be interesting to share the bare card and GPU in its own post, just to help people find it later on.

For measurements, here's what we were able to gleam with the calipers.

(Editor's Update: we have updated the die measurements after doing a remeasure. I think my first was a bit loose as I didn't want to impact the GPU directly.)

Die size: 25.90mm x 19.80mm (GPU only, not including memory stacks) Area: 512.82mm 2

Package size: 47.3mm x 47.3mm Area: 2,237mm 2



Enjoy the sexy!

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Interesting notes:

There is a LOT of empty PCB space on the Vega FE card. This is likely indicative of added area needed for a large heatsink and fan to cool 300-375 watt TDP without throttling.

Benefits of the smaller HBM-based package appears to be at a cost of SMT components on the GPU substrate and the PCB

The die size of Vega is large – bigger than GP102 even, despite running at a much lower performance level. It will be interesting to see how AMD answers the question of why the die has expanded as much as it did.

Feel free to leave us some comments if anything stands out!