Wednesday, January 9th 2019
AMD Announces the Radeon VII Graphics Card: Beats GeForce RTX 2080
AMD today announced the Radeon VII (Radeon Seven) graphics card, implementing the world's first GPU built on the 7 nm silicon fabrication process. Based on the 7 nm "Vega 20" silicon with 60 compute units (3,840 stream processors), and a 4096-bit HBM2 memory interface, the chip leverages 7 nm to dial up engine clock speeds to unprecedented levels (above 1.80 GHz possibly). CEO Lisa Su states that the Radeon VII performs competitively with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card. The card features a gamer-friendly triple-fan cooling solution with a design focus on low noise. AMD is using 16 GB of 4096-bit HBM2 memory. Available from February 7th, the Radeon VII will be priced at USD $699.
Update: We went hands on with the Radeon VII card at CES.
Update: We went hands on with the Radeon VII card at CES.
157 Comments on AMD Announces the Radeon VII Graphics Card: Beats GeForce RTX 2080
It is the same chip so really, they can afford to keep the price down. But I fear UK pricing to be between 500-600 pounds, when really, for a die shrink it should be comparable to the Vega 64.
EDIT - just saw pricing - designed to compete on price with RTX 2080. Damn. Dropped ball right there.
UK to US tax-free conversion makes the RTX 2080 about $740
Could still be competitive, depending on pricing *cough*HBM*cough*.
But AMD has just admitted they can't touch Nvidia's best this generation either.Scratch that, I just saw this is just Vega 20.16GB seems a bit too much; but on the other hand i think it was more cheaper then go for the 8GB route as it requires a change into the interposer. Imo future proof video card with 16GB of ram!
Is'nt 2.4Ghz Boost state a bit over the top? That's fast for a vega.
yeah i dont think so.