Thursday, January 24th 2019
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Sapphire Launches its Radeon VII, AMD Reserving 1.80 GHz Boost for Direct Sales?
Sapphire is among the first AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners to launch a Radeon VII graphics card. The card sticks to AMD reference board design, which the company unveiled at its CES 2019 keynote. Interestingly, its GPU engine boost frequency is set at 1750 MHz, which is less than the 1800 MHz boost frequency figure that was mentioned by the company earlier. Could it be that AMD is reserving 1800 MHz for cards directly sold on AMD.com? The memory frequency is unchanged at 1000 MHz, which works out to an HBM2 memory bandwidth of 1 TB/s. Sapphire's box for this card lists out key specifications upfront, and also features the Vega II logo. It's likely that the card will be sold at the baseline price of $699, given that there are no other variants of this card, not even custom-design.
38 Comments on Sapphire Launches its Radeon VII, AMD Reserving 1.80 GHz Boost for Direct Sales?
However... a R7 block would definitely change build path...
Later on this year a 16 core Ryzen on water with a micro-atx...
I think *finally* new exciting hardware just makes me want to do a new build on water again... :)
EK, Waterchill and others already do it with other cards. I have EK singlew slot cards on my V64s after having to take off the alphacool crap. Yes I am biased after having nothing but bad luck/experience with AC except for their radiators. There support is terrible too.
We need to see how it goes with the drivers that are goin to be released at launch .
Unlike nVidia cards where the Boost clocks usually exceeds the value set in bios, AMD cards generally do not reach the boost clocks set in bios out of the box.