![]() ![]() How many people need 300+ FPS in Siege, really? That’s a resolution we haven’t used in our high-end GPU launch reviews since 2014. Ultimately, it feels like AMD didn’t even know where to target this card, so it just decided to target it everywhere. With VII being derived from Instinct, it feels to me like AMD was forced to a 16GB VRAM config, and now has to justify that reality through what I’d consider to be misleading marketing. ![]() The move to 7nm helps AMD develop a GPU that’s more power efficient, but what fun would there be in releasing a product that only delivered the same performance, but at less power? It’s much better when we get far greater performance for the same power – or perhaps 5W more than RX Vega 64, as AMD’s spec sheet shows.Īs our power testing will highlight later, AMD’s TDP spec doesn’t align with our real-world testing, but that’s a good thing, since VII draws a good deal less power than the Vega 64, despite its big performance boost, and having twice the amount of HBM2. Creative users will lust for that long before gamers will.Īrchitecture: Radeon RX 550~590 = Polaris Radeon VII, RX Vega 56 & 64 = Vega We’re talking 1TB/s of available memory bandwidth, after all. With 16GB of HBM2, Radeon VII feels like a professional-grade card out-of-the-gate, and at launch, we questioned whether or not it should have been called the Radeon Pro VII (or even Frontier Edition 2). It just doesn’t have the Tensor or RT cores that the TITAN RTX does (but its saving grace is that it costs 1/4th as much). With its “do everything” ambition, the Radeon VII is similar to NVIDIA’s TITAN series. Highlighting VII’s gaming focus is likely for marketing more than anything else, because “world’s first 7nm jack-of-all-trades card” doesn’t have the same ring to it. Overall the Radeon VII feels like a card that was released to remind people there are other choices in the market but it didn’t seem to hit most user’s performance target (wants) nor pricing.During a briefing with AMD a few weeks ago to discuss the Radeon VII, we were surprised by the fact that the company jumped into a look at creative workloads before gaming ones, despite the card being touted as the “world’s first 7nm gaming” GPU. That said, competition is good, and we have a card which is notably quicker than Vega 64, and tickles the high-end market AMD is looking for while keeping compute a priority. So if compute performance is a requirement, the Radeon VII does appear to be the best option for most situations here. Compute testing at Anandtech (though it didn’t have 2080Ti or RTX Titan) showed it easily bested the RTX 2080 in many tests. However, the MI50/MI60 have full compute abilities and this is cut back comparatively. The card is essentially an Instinct MI50/60 that is cut down. Where the card should shine compared to most RTX counterparts is on the compute front. With a price coming in at $699, it is the same cost as the RTX 2080. Performance and power use aside, the main concern with many on this GPU is AMD isn’t winning the price to performance metric as they have typically done on both the GPU and CPU side of the house. Though it was rumored we wouldn’t see them, at least one AIC partner (Powercolor) showed off their cooling solutions so there will be other likely better options available down the road. Noise levels on this card compared to the RTX series FE cards was also higher in testing. Power use on these cards are a lot higher compared to the RTX 2080 as well (300W and 225W TDPs) so if being green is paramount in your decision, looking elsewhere will have to happen. As the resolution goes up, the HBM bandwidth helps shrink that gap. There are some titles out there which seem to prefer AMD and the card is able to punch up a half weight class and reach/surpass the RTX 2080 but for the most part is looking up. In the end, it appears the card is notably slower on average than the RTX 2080 AMD set out to compete against. Specifications: AMD Radeon Series Specifications Comparison In the meantime, we have compiled some specifications so our readers have some information about the cards from here as well as providing links to reviews of the card itself for some deep dives. Sadly, we were not seeded a sample to review today, but hopefully soon we will be able to test it ourselves. The card should do well in compute as the silicon it is cut from, the professional MI50/60 cards, are professional/server type of cards. Early rumors and ramblings from the AMD camp has this card pegged as a $700 (MSRP) card which is said to compete with NVIDIA’s RTX 2080 on the performance front, gaming at least. Today is the day AMD is set to release a new GPU into the market with its Radeon VII video card. ![]()
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