AMD Radeon VII Graphics Card Launched, Benchmarks Versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: AMD officially launched its new Radeon VII flagship graphics card today, based on the company's 7nm second-generation Vega architecture. In addition to core GPU optimizations, Radeon VII provides 2X the graphics memory at 16GB and 2.1X the memory bandwidth at a full 1TB/s, compared to AMD's previous generation Radeon RX Vega 64. The move to 7nm allowed AMD to shrink the Vega 20 GPU die down to 331 square millimeters. This shrink and the subsequent silicon die area saving is what allowed them to add an additional two stacks of HBM2 memory and increase the high-bandwidth cache (frame buffer) capacity to 16GB. The GPU on board the Radeon VII has 60CUs and a total of 3,840 active stream processors with a board power TDP of 300 Watts. As you might expect, it's a beast in the benchmarks that's able to pull ahead of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 in spots but ultimately lands somewhere in between the performance of an RTX 2070 and 2080 overall. AMD Radeon VII cards will be available in a matter of days at an MSRP of $699 with custom boards from third-party partners showing up shortly as well.

Comments

Games vs 3D art

[AHuxley]

The games crave the graphics power of a NVIDIA product.
3D art creation likes the extra memory of the AMD card.

Buy a AMD card to create a 3D game and pay it on NVIDIA card?

Basically just trying to scoop extra $

[locater16]

The card is sold out everywhere, meaning there's next to no stock.

Odds are great that these are just another "bin" of cards from their high end machine learning series. Basically less functional castoffs that AMD is hoping to sell for some cash because otherwise they'd just go to waste.

Re:Basically just trying to scoop extra $

[alvinrod]

This only exists because they needed something to show off at CES because their next generation Navi cards aren’t ready. This is a Vega 20 part which is specifically designed for machine learning and heavy compute workloads. It’s basically just one of their MI50 cards with the double precision performance crippled intentionally. If NVidia weren’t jacking up the prices on their 2000 series cards, AMD probably wouldn’t be able to sell this since it’s expensive for them to make and comes at the cost of selling a several thousand dollar professional card instead.

Re:Power consumption

[Tough Love]

Then you will be overjoyed to know that the Radeon VII draws roughly the same power as the RTX 2080. Further, it is likely to underclock very well, dropping into a sweeter spot of the 7nm power curve. At which point it will be not only a very powerful card, but a cool and quiet one too. Whereas in stock configuration, this reference card is known to be about twice as noisy as a typical 2080. That would be my only serious issue, and for that reason I will wait for the OEM cards to land, which they surely will because AMD has, by accident or design, left room for OEMs to differentiate with superior cooling solutions.

I guess this GPU is going to be a solid seller after the dust settles. It's already a hit in the Linux world. AMD will probably be selling as many as they can make for quite some time.

That is considering it purely as a gaming card. But with twice the memory, and 50% faster memory than the RTX 2080 it's not just a gaming card. And 16MB gives it a lot of longevity, maybe an uncomfortable fact for Nvidia, who prefers its products to go obsolete as quickly as possible.