Sunday, February 4th 2018
Sapphire Launches Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 Graphics Card
Sapphire over the weekend officially launched its cost-effective custom-design Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card, the Pulse Radeon Vega 56 (model: 11276-02), which began appearing on European e-tailers late-January. The card combines a custom-design short-length PCB that's roughly the length of AMD's reference R9 Fury board; with a beefy custom-design cooling solution that features two large aluminium fin-stacks, ventilated by a pair of 100 mm double ball-bearing fans.
The card offers out of the box clock speeds of 1208 MHz core, 1512 MHz boost, and 800 MHz (1.60 GHz HBM2 effective) memory, against AMD reference clock speeds of 1138 MHz core and 1474 MHz boost. At its given clock, the memory bandwidth on offer is 409.6 GB/s. The "Vega 10" silicon is configured with 3,584 stream processors, 192 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0. Sapphire intended for this SKU to ideally occupy a close-to-reference price-point, a notch below its Nitro+ series, however in the wake of the crypto-currency wave, market-forces will decide its retail price.
The card offers out of the box clock speeds of 1208 MHz core, 1512 MHz boost, and 800 MHz (1.60 GHz HBM2 effective) memory, against AMD reference clock speeds of 1138 MHz core and 1474 MHz boost. At its given clock, the memory bandwidth on offer is 409.6 GB/s. The "Vega 10" silicon is configured with 3,584 stream processors, 192 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0. Sapphire intended for this SKU to ideally occupy a close-to-reference price-point, a notch below its Nitro+ series, however in the wake of the crypto-currency wave, market-forces will decide its retail price.
37 Comments on Sapphire Launches Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 Graphics Card
About increasing performance, its not like a third company will rise in the gaming market and present huge mining numbers. all NVIDIA\AMD have to do is come up with cards that mine 5% faster than previous gen and they will be bought out. At least that's what going on right now. What kind of an incentive to grow you have if your target audience can't even reach your product. Will you, as NVIDIA, launch a new line up of volta cards right now? Hell no, it can keep rotting on its shelf like it has been for the last year or so.
Preventing the launch of a new product line is the dictionary definition of a slow down for me.
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Market demanded mining cards. Both sides dropped mining cards (P106-90, P106-100, P104-100, AMD RX470/480/750/580 mining editions).
AMD if anyone is the only company taking their sweet ass time to do anything and if anything has slowed down nvidia for a release schedule it was a complete and utter lack of competition. I mean come on AMD Vega isn't even that good at mining anything other than cryptonight and it is worse at games.
Their market share is down to a piddly 8.16% on the latest Steam hardware survey and nothing is going to change soon in the short term.
AMD need a killer product for gamers, not the Vega launch which was a train crash in slow motion.
They had the right idea with the 480, but between the botched launch, lack of anything in stock initially, and voltage overdraw problems, it really didn't have a prayer. They tried to do it right with the 580, but too late.
Pity, had the 480 been done right from the beginning, their Steam percentage might be 25-30% now.
Give us an ITX version, looks like the PCB is already small enough.
Just bolt a shorter cooler on and take my money :-)
And again: make a full cover water block for this please.