What we know now about AMD Radeon Vega II = VII = 7 (nm)

By all the surprises in CES and new announcements by AMD Radeon VII and AMD may not abandoning high-performance graphics just yet, as the company is still planning to compete with NVIDIA Turing and next gens to come. More deatails to be verified by independent reviews as they will drop around February 7th.

AMD Radeon VII featuring 7nm Vega architecture comes with 3840 Stream Processors, which means that the GPU does not have all cores enabled. AMD may be still planning to introduce the full GPU for gaming, we simply don’t know yet. What we have learned from AMD presentation is that 7nm 331 mm2 GPU will compete against 12nm 545 mm2 processor from NVIDIA.

AMD Radeon VII will not probably compete with TITAN RTX, it will not probably compete with RTX 2080 Ti either. Instead, AMD is focusing on GeForce RTX 2080, the 8GB GDDR6 replacement for GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. AMD solution features about twice as much memory (16 vs 8GB), which is also twice as fast (1 TB/s vs 0.45 TB/s). It does not have Tensor Cores or RT Cores equivalent but is this really that important considering how few games support DXR?

We have no way of knowing how power efficient 7nm Vega really is, this will be verified by independent reviews as they drop around February 7th.

AMD also released more gaming performance benchmarks (source: Overclock3D):

 

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