AMD Radeon RX Vega Put Through 3DMark

[btarunr]

Ahead of its July 27 unveiling at AMD's grand media event on the sidelines of SIGGRAPH, performance benchmarks of the elusive Radeon RX Vega consumer graphics card surfaced once again. Someone with access to an RX Vega sample, with its GPU clocked at 1630 MHz and memory at 945 MHz, put it through 3DMark. One can tell that it's RX Vega and not Pro Vega Frontier Edition, looking at its 8 GB video memory amount.

In three test runs, the RX Vega powered machine yielded a graphics score of 22,330 points, 22,291 points, and 20.949 points. This puts its performance either on-par or below that of the GeForce GTX 1080, but comfortably above the GTX 1070. The test-bench consisted of a Core i7-5960X processor, and graphics driver version 22.19.640.2.



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[R00kie]

Hmmmm....

No thanks

 

[erek]

Hmmmm....

No thanks

:'(

 

[EarthDog]

Well, if this is the XTX air/water... that isn't good. If it is something lower in the product stack...

300/375W vs 180 (gtx 1080) doesn't look good in performance /W. Looks like they will slide in on price: performance ratio and undercut.

 

[S@LEM!]

poor Vega

 

[DRDNA]

Right now I'm disappointed but I may not be in a month or two of Cat updates. AMD GPU's normally raise in their performance for the first few months if not for a year due to the Cat updates....

 

[Prima.Vera]

If the price is lower or the same of a 1070.... well
Anyways seems like AMD completelly lost the battle for top cards.

 

[ERazer]

that gotta hurt for ppl that waited this long

 

[ratirt]

that gotta hurt for ppl that waited this long

Well it does. I'm waiting for it still and yet nothing breathtaking has been shown so far. Bummer or there's still hope for something slightly better? Hope there is

 

[ixi]

Shhjjjiieeet..... Ou well. Sad for those eho were waiting.

 

[P4-630]

Hmm using a i7-5960X to get a somewhat respectable overall score...
Looking at the graphics score it's not much faster than my 1070 OC'd.

My 1070 OC'd does a respectable 21.169 graphics score.

 

[erek]

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Not really unexpected, based on the performance of polaris. Most educated guesses put the VEGA chip at 1080 level at best. The fact that it is consistently faster then a 1070 is a bit better then expected. Unfortunately, it also confirmed that AMD completely threw this GPU generation to nvidia for anything other then low end cards, and does not bode well for volta VS navi.

Of course, that assumes this is the full 4096 core part. Based on FE's performance, I have little reason to believe otherwise, but still.

Right now I'm disappointed but I may not be in a month or two of Cat updates. AMD GPU's normally raise in their performance for the first few months if not for a year due to the Cat updates....

At which point volta will be out and dominating what is left of VEGA.

AMD needs to deliver at launch, not a year later.

 

[GhostRyder]

Well that's not very good, depending on which variant it was... Pretty much rules them out of being competitive on the high end though as even if its the lowest card in that stack its not going to magically be up to 1080ti levels (Unless there is something I am missing).

Realistically, I think the only way for AMD to be completely competitive again is a completely new architecture, on a new node, and built from the ground up

 

[cryohellinc]

If its cheaper compared to 1080, this will sell very well.

 

[fynxer]

Now just watch when nVidia demolishes Vega and sends it into the lower end of the midrange segment with the release of 2070 and 2080 Volta in September

nVidia will do it just because they can right now and to keep AMDs profits down from the expensive to produce Vega.

They want AMD to continue being an underdog and let them chew on that dry bone barely covering their expenses in the graphics card division.

 

[B-Real]

Hmm using a i7-5960X to get a somewhat respectable overall score...
Looking at the graphics score it's not much faster than my 1070 OC'd.

My 1070 OC'd does a respectable 21.169 graphics score.

How interesting that is:

An OC 1070 nearly gets to ref 1080 level...

 

[cdawall]

I see we are still a generation behind nvidia assuming this is the higher sku.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13034600

If its cheaper compared to 1080, this will sell very well.

Only if it is priced well. If it is priced like a 1070 and performs like a 1080 some people will buy it. Issue is it is still half the performance per watt and in the quiet computing scene that now exists having an extra gpu worth of heat dumped into you case is bad all around.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

If the price is right it could be ok, waiting for the launching benches so I can judge this better

 

[B-Real]

I see we are still a generation behind nvidia assuming this is the higher sku.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13034600



Only if it is priced well. If it is priced like a 1070 and performs like a 1080 some people will buy it. Issue is it is still half the performance per watt and in the quiet computing scene that now exists having an extra gpu worth of heat dumped into you case is bad all around.

Gamers will not buy GPUs that are better in performance per watt. They will buy GPUs that are cheaper with the same performance, or same price like rival's cheaper card but performing like their bigger card. However, with the HBM, I doubt the 1080 performance will be sold for 1070 prices. We will see.

 

[Daven]

"This puts its performance either on-par or below that of the GeForce GTX 1080..."

No.

The Geforce GTX 1080 was overclocked to 1924 MHz which is well above stock/turbo/max clocks of 1607/1733/1800 MHz. This is pretty much the best possible score a GTX 1080 can have overclocked almost to the max.

If the RX Vega at 1630 MHz is stock or even turbo, they will be in a good position. I calculate the card will be halfway between a stock GTX 1080 and a stock GTX 1080 Ti.

Rumored power consumption of 375W still suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkkssss.

 

[B-Real]

"This puts its performance either on-par or below that of the GeForce GTX 1080..."

No.

The Geforce GTX 1080 was overclocked to 1924 MHz which is well above stock/turbo/max clocks of 1607/1733/1800 MHz. This is pretty much the best possible score a GTX 1080 can have overclocked almost to the max.

If the RX Vega at 1630 MHz is stock or even turbo, they will be in a good position. I calculate the card will be halfway between a stock GTX 1080 and a stock GTX 1080 Ti.

Rumored power consumption of 375W still suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkkssss.

That is for the water cooled version. Air cooled is 300W. 1080 is 180W, 1080Ti is 250W. Who cares about power consumption when we speak about a 400-500-700$ card?

 

[P4-630]

Aaaand a sudden stream of new TPU members coming in....LOL

 

[cdawall]

Gamers will not buy GPUs that are better in performance per watt. They will buy GPUs that are cheaper with the same performance, or same price like rival's cheaper card but performing like their bigger card. However, with the HBM, I doubt the 1080 performance will be sold for 1070 prices. We will see.

Gamers but quiet, quiet cards don't double the heat output of their competitor. You know how I know this? Sales figures for the last 10 years.

If performance per watt didnt matter amd wouldn't have been only 28% of the market share when the 290/390 was selling.

 

[notb]

In line with everything we've seen until now.
RX Vega == Vega FE Gaming mode.
As it should be.