Calculate the TPS of the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled on local AI models
Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.
Calculated for this card
679 models in our catalogue altogether
Largest model it holds
Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B
31.6B · Q3_K_M · 75.8 tok/s
Fastest model
Gemma 3 QAT 1B
160 tok/s · 1B
Which AI models can run on a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled?
Set the inputs, read the answer
More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.
Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.
432 models match
Calculating| Quantisation | Fit | ||||||
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160
tok/s
96–256 · low confidence |
Gemma 3 1B | 1B | Mar 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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160
tok/s
96–256 · low confidence |
Gemma 3 QAT 1B | 1B | Apr 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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160
tok/s
96–256 · low confidence |
HGRN 1B (WT 103) ≈ | 1B | Nov 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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160
tok/s
96–256 · low confidence |
LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B ≈ | 1B | Dec 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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160
tok/s
96–256 · low confidence |
OLMo-1B ≈ | 1B | Feb 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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160
tok/s
96–256 · low confidence |
Pythia-1b ≈ | 1B | Apr 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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148
tok/s
89–237 · low confidence |
OpenELM-1.1B ≈ | 1.1B | May 2024 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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145
tok/s
87–232 · low confidence |
DeciCoder-1B ≈ | 1.1B | Aug 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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145
tok/s
87–232 · low confidence |
SantaCoder ≈ | 1.1B | Jan 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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145
tok/s
87–232 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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145
tok/s
87–232 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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133
tok/s
80–213 · low confidence |
EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) ≈ | 1.2B | Jul 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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133
tok/s
80–213 · low confidence |
MinerU2.5 ≈ | 1.2B | Sep 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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133
tok/s
80–213 · low confidence |
Pleias 1.0 1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Dec 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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133
tok/s
80–213 · low confidence |
Pleias-RAG-1B ≈ | 1.2B | Apr 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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130
tok/s
78–208 · low confidence |
Llama 3.2 1B | 1.2B | Sep 2024 | 2.2 GB | 131k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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128
tok/s
77–205 · low confidence |
MiniCPM-1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Jun 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Jan 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
DeepSeek-VL-1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Mar 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
DigiRL ≈ | 1.3B | Jun 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
GLA Transformer 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
Janus 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
Kosmos-2.5 ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
Otter ≈ | 1.3B | May 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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123
tok/s
74–197 · low confidence |
Phi-1 ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.
On record
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled full specification
Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.
Memory
The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.
- Memory size
- 16 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 484 GB/s
- Memory type
- HBM2
- Memory bus width
- 2,048 bit
- Memory clock
- 945 MHz
The chip
Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.
- Graphics processor
- Vega 10
- Architecture
- GCN 5.0
- Generation
- Radeon Pro Vega(Vega Series)
- Foundry
- GlobalFoundries
- Process size
- 14 nm
- Transistors
- 12.5 billion
- Transistor density
- 25,300 K/mm²
- Die size
- 495 mm²
- Package
- BGA-2013
- Released
- 13 July 2017
Clock speeds
How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.
- Base clock
- 1.38 GHz
- Boost clock
- 1.6 GHz
Processing units
What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.
- Shading units
- 4,096
- Texture mapping units
- 256
- Render output units
- 64
- L1 cache
- 16 KB
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
Theoretical performance
Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.
- Half precision (FP16)
- 26.2 TFLOPS
- Single precision (FP32)
- 13.1 TFLOPS
- Double precision (FP64)
- 819.2 GFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 102 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 410 GTexel/s
The board
What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.
- Power draw (TDP)
- 375 W
- Suggested power supply
- 750 W
- Power connectors
- 2x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Slot width
- Dual-slot
- Dimensions
- 267 mm
- Display outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Software support
Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.
- DirectX
- 12.1
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- OpenCL
- 2.1
- Shader model
- 6.7
Listings
Where to buy a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.
What the numbers mean
What the memory subsystem means for AI
Memory
16 GB
Bandwidth
484 GB/s
Largest model
Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B
16 GB of HBM2 puts the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled comfortably into small and mid-sized models, with roughly 14.4 GB usable once the driver overhead is taken out. The largest models are out of reach without splitting them.
The memory bus moves 484 GB/s across a 2,048-bit bus. That is the number that governs generation speed — arithmetic per byte read is small enough that the bus, not the cores, is what everything waits on.
Bandwidth is clock times bus width, and this card clocks its memory at 945 MHz. Both halves matter, and neither is visible in a gaming benchmark.
Put together, the largest model that fits is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at 31.6B, running Q3_K_M and producing around 75.8 tokens per second.
The chip and how it was built
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is built on the Vega 10 graphics processor, using AMD's GCN 5.0 architecture, as part of the Radeon Pro Vega(Vega Series) generation.
The chip is manufactured by GlobalFoundries, on a 14 nm process, with a die measuring 495 mm², holding 12.5 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.
It was released in July 2017, roughly 9 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.
Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks
FP16
26.2 TFLOPS
FP64
819.2 GFLOPS
On paper the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled reaches 26.2 TFLOPS at half precision and 13.1 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.
Double-precision throughput is 819.2 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.
Clocks run from 1.38 GHz at base to 1.6 GHz boosted. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.
Cache and processing units
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled has 16 KB of L1 cache, backed by 4 MB of L2. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.
There are 4,096 shading units, 256 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.
Power, size and installation
Power draw
375 W
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is rated at 375 W, with a 750 W power supply suggested for the whole system. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.
The board occupies a dual-slot, measuring 267 mm long, and needs 2x 8-pin. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.
It connects over PCIe 3.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.
The extremes
The largest AI models that run on a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.
The fastest AI models on a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.
Step by step
How to work out the tokens per second of a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.
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Start with the model, not the specification
The table lists 432 models this Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled can run. Search by name, or by size — typing 27b matches on the parameter count even when the name never states it.
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Set the context length you will actually use
Set the context to your real working length. Short questions cost almost nothing; a long document can consume a large share of the card's 16 GB.
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Choose how far you will compress
Each model is shown at the best compression this card can hold. A minimum quality hides the ones that only fit by being squeezed further than you would accept.
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Take the range as the answer
Each speed is an estimate for a single conversation, with a range beneath it — 160 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B at the top end here. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.
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Check the memory column before committing
A tight fit runs but leaves no room to raise the context later; comfortable has headroom. The memory column shows what each model needs against the 16 GB available.
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Open the model to compare cards
Every model name in the table links to its own page, which runs the same calculation across every card we hold. That is where you see whether the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is the right buy for it or merely a card that fits.
Answers
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled — common questions
Would two Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled cards be twice as fast?
Pairing Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled cards buys headroom rather than pace: 32 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.
What AI models can a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled run?
432 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and can be run locally on it. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.
What is the largest AI model a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled can run?
The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at 31.6B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 75.8 tokens per second and needs about 14.4 GB of the card's memory.
How many tokens per second does a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled produce?
It depends on the model. On a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 160 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.
Can a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled run a 7B model?
Yes. For example a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled runs Multi-Token Prediction 7B at Q8_0, using about 7.9 GB of memory and generating around 23.9 tokens per second.
Can a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled run a 13B model?
Yes. For example a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q6_K, using about 13.7 GB of memory and generating around 80.6 tokens per second.
Can a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled run a 30B model?
Yes. For example a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q3_K_M, using about 12.9 GB of memory and generating around 85.6 tokens per second.
How much memory does a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled have?
A Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled has 16 GB of HBM2 memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 14.4 GB available for a model and its conversation.
What is the memory bandwidth of a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled?
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled has 484 GB/s of memory bandwidth, across a 2,048-bit memory bus. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.
What type of memory does a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled use?
It uses HBM2 clocked at 945 MHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.
Who makes the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled?
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is a AMD product, with the chip manufactured by GlobalFoundries, on a 14 nm process.
When was the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled released?
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled was released in July 2017.
How much power does a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled use?
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled has a rated board power of 375 W, and a 750 W system power supply is suggested. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.
How much cache does a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled have?
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled has 16 KB of L1 cache, and 4 MB of L2 cache. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.
What are the TFLOPS of a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled?
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is rated at 26.2 TFLOPS at half precision and 13.1 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.
Does the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled support CUDA?
No. CUDA is NVIDIA-only, and the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is a AMD card. It runs language models through ROCm, Vulkan or Metal depending on the software, which are less mature than the CUDA path — our estimates apply a penalty for that.
What bus interface does the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled use?
It uses PCIe 3.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.
Is the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled good for running local AI models?
Its memory covers small and mid-sized models, though the largest are out of reach and its bandwidth gives usable, if unspectacular, generation speeds. In total it runs 432 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.
Can a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled run a model that does not fit in its memory?
Offloading past the card's 16 GB is possible and usually a false economy: the system-memory portion is slow enough to dominate the result.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.