Friday, August 11th 2017

Sapphire Announces RX Vega 64 Graphics Card Lineup

SAPPHIRE Technology has announced the launch of the much-anticipated SAPPHIRE Radeon Vega 64 enthusiast graphics cards. The Vega architecture boasts significant improvements focused on maximizing the performance. Vega cards are designed for enthusiasts seeking top-of-the-chart framerates in games of today and tomorrow - in Ultra details and VR.

SAPPHIRE Technology is introducing three Vega-powered models:
  • SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2 Liquid Cooled
  • SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2
  • SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2 Limited Edition
Vega is a major evolution of the Radeon graphics architecture, with innovations across multiple core fronts of the silicon. New GPUs feature a High Bandwidth Cache and memory controllers remove the capacity limitations of traditional GPU memory. Thanks to automatic, fine-grained memory movement controlled by the high-bandwidth cache controller, new architecture enables access to much larger, more detailed assets. Vega GPU utilizes HBM2, the latest in graphics memory technology, to provide incredible levels of power efficiency and memory performance.
RTG engineers also equipped Vega chips with Next-Gen Compute units. This translates to higher possible clock speeds, better throughput and double the peak polygon per clock handled by the engine (vs R9 Fury X). The Pixel Engine also received a Next-Gen makeover, boosting the shading performance especially vital for gaming. Significant advancements were made to the geometry engine as well.
Gaming performance
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics cards are the new high-end models of the Radeon family, we know you've been waiting for. The time has finally come to showcase the performance of Vega in the most important category of software on the planet: Games. Spoiler: it's fast. Like, Ultra-details and VR Premium-fast!

Extreme Gaming
Step up to next generation SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega Graphics cards and lose yourself in the greatest high-end gaming and virtual reality experiences. Escape inside the latest graphically intensive games with high framerates, ultrawide immersion, and Ultra HD resolutions. SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega graphics cards have been built with an extensively redesigned and forward-thinking GPU architecture to deliver exhilarating performance in the newest DirectX 12 and Vulkan games.
Cinematic VR
Experience beautifully rich and immersive VR environments and gameplay, augmented by player comfort and effortless compatibility. With ground-breaking GPU multi-threading hardware, gamers can enjoy the smooth visual and audio presence that enables the perfect VR Experience. The SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega graphics cards deliver a fully immersive and comfortable VR experience.

Intense Visuals
Crank up your graphics quality and bring out every detail at incredible resolutions with the revolutionary Vega architecture. The SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega graphics cards power the latest displays and features forward-thinking features like FreeSync 2. Play in lifelike HDR, stream your gameplay for the world, and record your highlights all at the same time with virtually no performance loss.
Universal Connectivity and Compatibility
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega Graphics cards are ready to drive the latest visual experiences with support for DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3/ HDR and HDMI 2.0, and offer support to the latest Freesync2 monitor ecosystem.
Availability
The new Vega 64 based SAPPHIRE graphics cards will be available to buy from August 14th.
Source: Sapphire Nation
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34 Comments on Sapphire Announces RX Vega 64 Graphics Card Lineup

#26
Th3pwn3r
Vayra86Wake me up when there is an actual reliable benchmark of these cards...

14 August launch and here we are on the 12th knowing absolutely nothing. DAFUQ AMD. This is almost as bad as a pre-order situation
I totally agree with you. The secrecy on it is not only bizarre but stupid. Keeping such a tight lid on things does make me suspicious that Vega is actually crap. One could argue they're trying to get it hush-hush- to prevent miners from going crazy and buying them up BUT they could also have a non-disclosure agreement with reviewers that only allows them to share results of the cards performance specifically in games. That makes too much sense though, better to leave people in limbo.
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#27
Vya Domus
hyp36rmaxThis is misinformation. Just less emphasis on crossfire. Crossfire should still work for titles that support it. it wouldn't make any sense if Crossfire and mGPU was abandoned especially for those with 4K+, multi monitors and high refresh rate users (Although a small percentage)
SimpleTECHI thought AMD wasn't supporting CrossFire with VEGA? I'm so confused. :confused:
They are going to eventually drop support for it altogether , Nvidia will do it as well. DX 12 and some graphical effects/techniques are not compatible anymore with SLI/Crossfire , they are on their way out.
Th3pwn3rThe secrecy on it is not only bizarre but stupid.
What I am about to say will shock you : AMD does not care about Vega as a consumer/gaming card , even more so now with the mining craze.

They stopped giving a damn about Vega many months ago when they missed the optimum release time window to fight off Pascal. Even if they would throw some Titan Xp killer at 500$ , bummer , most people already gave their money to Nvidia, hardly anyone upgrades their GPU after just 1 year.
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#28
RejZoR
Th3pwn3rI totally agree with you. The secrecy on it is not only bizarre but stupid. Keeping such a tight lid on things does make me suspicious that Vega is actually crap. One could argue they're trying to get it hush-hush- to prevent miners from going crazy and buying them up BUT they could also have a non-disclosure agreement with reviewers that only allows them to share results of the cards performance specifically in games. That makes too much sense though, better to leave people in limbo.
Part of me is still hoping that reviewers get fully featured driver that makes Vega 64 as fast as GTX 1080Ti. But they want to be quiet about it to catch NVIDIA entirely off guard. They already got more than enough attention and drama with disappointing initial numbers, imagine how people would rave about it, if it turns out to be a 1080Ti killer. I know, a very optimistic thing to hope, but still.

@Vya Domus
Do you seriouisly believe that everyone bought Titan and 1080Ti cards? Just look at RX580 after RX480. It was still selling just fine. Also, people who can afford a +700€ card generally has the money to buy one every year. Those who don't probably still have HD7900 series card or similar...
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#29
Vya Domus
RejZoR@Vya Domus
Do you seriouisly believe that everyone bought Titan and 1080Ti cards? Just look at RX580 after RX480. It was still selling just fine. Also, people who can afford a +700€ card generally has the money to buy one every year. Those who don't probably still have HD7900 series card or similar...
You sort of missed my point. In one year span people that wanted to buy a high end card did buy one and they bought Nvidia. Even if you have cash to burn , why would you spend another 700$ to something that is at best equal ? The only way Vega would have looked attractive to those people is if it was at least 30-50% faster otherwise they wouldn't bother. Sure there are people like you who haven't upgraded yet but let's not beat around the bush , Vega considering it's performance came out at the worst possible time for it to be successful from a business point of view. AMD knows this , hence the lackluster info they provided.
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#30
RejZoR
And who says everyone bought GTX 1080? Or 1080Ti? If you have a GTX 1070, it's still a reasonable upgrade. Maybe people have GTX 1060. Or people have RX 480. How is RX Vega unreasonable then? You're assuming everyone just got GTX 1080 or Ti... i haven't yet. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one seeing the wast interest in Vega from people...
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#31
Vya Domus
Most people buy a rig/upgrade it and then they forget about it for 2-3 years. It's just the way it is.

With the last few generations AMD and Nvidia made it so that they came out with their high end lineup more or less at the same time so this wasn't a problem. This time around however, this didn't happen and it has big implications.
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#32
Anymal
the54thvoid30% faster than a Fury X on the Doom slide.

I recall a certain forum member (who can remain nameless unless I stumble across their post) claiming with silly levels of confidence we were stupid if we thought Vega would be anything less than 50% faster.

Hmm. Given the clockspeed is 50% faster, this isn't very good at all. I don't understand how a shrink and 50%+ higher clocks aren't delivering more. Really itching for @W1zzard's review for the biopsy of the card, genuinely curious how this is not way faster. Could've just shrunk Fiji and ramped up clocks?
Vega is a major evolution of the Radeon graphics architecture![/QUOTE]
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#33
bpgt64
I wonder if this is why AMD included 64 PCIe lanes in the Threadripper system, so it could house this many high end GPUs.
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#34
EarthDog
Mames sense considering its a prosumer item...otherwise nobody needs more, really. There are fringe cases, but most arent using multiple gpus and m.2...if those are your plans, you need to go big on cpu with pcie lanes.. 44 for intel SL-X or 64 for TR.
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