Thursday, October 25th 2018
AMD Vega 20 Possible Performance Spotted in Final Fantasy XV Benchmark
It would appear AMD's 7nm Vega 20 has been benchmarked in Final Fantasy XV. While the details are scarce, what we do know is the hardware device ID 66AF:C1 can be linked to Vega 20 via the Linux patches back in April. Now considering AMD has not confirmed any 7nm Vega graphics cards for consumers, It is more likely this version is an engineering sample for the new Radeon Instinct or Pro series cards.
While the Final Fantasy XV benchmark is not exactly an AMD friendly title considering the heavy use of NVIDIA's Gameworks. The fact remains, it does give us a glimpse into its performance compared to the currently available Vega based graphics cards on the market. Looking at the charts, 66AF:C1 offers performance that typically beats out the previous Vega offerings including, Vega 56, Vega 64 and even the Frontier Edition. Even so, it still lags behind NVIDIA's older GTX 1080. A few possible reasons for these results exist, first, the GPU may not be operating at peak clock speeds which is indeed possible if it is an engineering sample. However, another likely possibility is that AMD is using 7nm as a means to lower power consumption, rather than to increase performance. Like all leaks of this nature it is best to take them with a grain of salt.
Sources:
FFXV Benchmark, via Videocardz
27 Comments on AMD Vega 20 Possible Performance Spotted in Final Fantasy XV Benchmark
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ehm.. I think you misunderstand vega20 a bit.
it's just Vega64 -> 7nm, nothing else pretty much, at 150 W it's a better card than 2070\2080, same performance, lower power consumption, costs less probably due to die size and It'd say that is a story for success.
Unless 7nm have horrible yields but all stories point to all things good.
Edit:well it's a very nvidia title, more than any other title I've ever seen so it's a bad for overall performance comparison, that said it's just a new RX580 in my eyes and it looks promising.
I just want 2080ti performance at not 2080 ti price.
2080ti has mighty performance but holy shit it's pricey.
But since I'm stuck with x299 for awhile, it's not worth it.
325mm2 on 7nm translates to 650mm2 on 12nm, compared to VEGA 484mm2. there are at least 33% more transistors in VEGA20
AMD fans cling to the hope that 7nm is going to help them crush Nvidia, but sadly I think they will be dissappointed.
TITAN V JHH Special Edition
(Jen-Hsun Huang)
Probably 99% A.S.I.C. quality score too.. I wonder if that BIOS would flash over to Titian V un-special edition......could use a $3,000 brick.....LoL
They are adding tensor ops of some sort.
and XGMI links
Also Vega64 is already 1080 performance... so this is clearly not at clocks or fully enabled.
When TSMC has the capacity to support consumer graphics chips at 7nm, Nvidia will also have access to them, if they wish.
And then, we are back to square one.
What is the point of this? Clicks? A new Vega hype? I've never seen Quadro or Tesla being put to the test on vague, leaky benchmarks. Or even 3DMark.
@all you can safely ignore this whole article. Go do something useful instead. There is nothing to be learned here. You can't learn anything about 7nm performance / scaling / power budget, you don't see what 7nm Vega is actually for, and the bench is unreliable.
I'm expecting a bit more restraint from TPU. This is feeding into a misplaced hype and misinformed fanbase. As you can see by over half the posts made here. 'Possible performance spotted'... :oops: