Friday, July 12th 2019
AMD Retires the Radeon VII Less Than Five Months Into Launch
AMD has reportedly discontinued production of its flagship Radeon VII graphics card. According to a Cowcotland report, AMD no longer finds it viable to produce and sell the Radeon VII at prices competitive to NVIDIA's RTX 2080, especially when its latest Radeon RX 5700 XT performs within 5-12 percent of the Radeon VII at less than half its price. AMD probably expects custom-design RX 5700 XT cards to narrow the gap even more. The RX 5700 XT has a much lesser BOM (bill of materials) cost compared to the Radeon VII, due to the simplicity of its ASIC, a conventional GDDR6 memory setup, and far lighter electrical requirements.
In stark contrast to the RX 5700 XT, the Radeon VII is based on a complex MCM (multi-chip module) that has not just a 7 nm GPU die, but also four 32 Gbit HBM2 stacks, and a silicon interposer. It also has much steeper VRM requirements. Making matters worse is the now-obsolete "Vega" architecture it's based on, which loses big time against "Navi" at performance/Watt. The future of AMD's high-end VGA lineup is uncertain. Looking at the way "Navi" comes close to performance/Watt parity with NVIDIA on the RX 5700, AMD may be tempted to design a larger GPU die based on "Navi," with a conventional GDDR6-based memory sub-system, to take another swing at NVIDIA's high-end.
Source:
Cowcotland
In stark contrast to the RX 5700 XT, the Radeon VII is based on a complex MCM (multi-chip module) that has not just a 7 nm GPU die, but also four 32 Gbit HBM2 stacks, and a silicon interposer. It also has much steeper VRM requirements. Making matters worse is the now-obsolete "Vega" architecture it's based on, which loses big time against "Navi" at performance/Watt. The future of AMD's high-end VGA lineup is uncertain. Looking at the way "Navi" comes close to performance/Watt parity with NVIDIA on the RX 5700, AMD may be tempted to design a larger GPU die based on "Navi," with a conventional GDDR6-based memory sub-system, to take another swing at NVIDIA's high-end.
123 Comments on AMD Retires the Radeon VII Less Than Five Months Into Launch
But for now fair enough ,it depends how fast and how it was used no?.
What if the Xbox next or ps5 have their attached storage closer to the gpu?.
They're both saying Special storage.
If everything can talk to memory and storage ,who is it that forces people to attach storage on the end of a io chain when it could be much more integrated between Gpu and Cpu (for Xbox ps5)
RV Vega II is pointless for AMD's shader based ray-tracing.
Sony in the past has played lose with ray-tracing claims with Killzone Shadow Fall's cheap rays.
But why?
I feel like, on paper, this thing should be amazing yet it is like barely beating the 5700x :\
I am just a little salty and hopeful because I got the VII not realizing another, significantly cheaper, AMD card was around the corner ($400 vs $700 launch prices). I should have just put in a cheapo (relatively speaking) low-end card and waited a couple of months or dug my old r9 290x out of the closet.
The cost of the 16GBs of that shiny *new* HBM2 memory totally ate up the profitability of this card, though.
*just an opinion (note the "I feel"s) based on some research on this card prior to getting one several months ago as well as watching Gamers Nexus and other YouTube'ers. plus this info www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-vii.c3358 for "Relative Performance" of 5700 XT vs Radeon VII
#ButIDigress
Radeon 7 is just for the ultimate AMD fans.