October 11, 2017
Mohsen Daemi

AMD 2017-2018 | New high-end Radeon RX Vega, Radeon RX 500 Gaming graphics cards

2017 Was AMD’s Huge Come Back to Gaming CPU and Graphics market with Ryzen & Radeon RX! 2018 Could Be The Year For AMD domination over Nvidia & Intel in Gaming!

AMD Radeon RX Vega, 500, 400 in 2018
Credit: AMD Radeon

New graphic cards in The Radeon RX series are aiming To beat Nvidia graphics in high end market. 2017 Has been the year of Radeon RX graphics from AMD and specially The Radeon Vega that is competing Nvidia in highest end of video graphic cards market in gaming and also in VR Gaming experience. AMD also released the AMD Ryzen Platform and Ryzen CPUs in 2017 and continuing to produce them in 2018 for the 2nd AMD Ryzen CPU generation with 12 nm. It can absolutely be stated that 2017 was the year for AMD to have the greatest come back to the market since 2007. And we can predict 2018 could be the year that AMD dominates video Gaming in CPU and Graphics cards. Intel and Nvidia are going to have one of their most challenging years in 2018 with new upcoming Ryzen 2nd generation and Vega Graphics in early 2018. The entry model is the Radeon RX Vega 56, with 56 compute units and will cost about $399. The Vega 56 is going to compete with the Gforce 1070. The Vega 56 ofcourse wins as it’s cheaper and faster in most tests too. This is great news for AMD and anyone wishing to buy a high-end graphics card. The next one is Radeon RX Vega 64, which will get about 64 units for an additional $100 on the cost. Not much out yet from the 3rd option though but as far as reported the $699 Vega 64 is Liquid Cooled and is only available with a Radeon Packs. The whole Vega series shipped on August 14th. AMD released a benchmark from the vega series earlier when it was announced. AMD’s benchmarks indicate that the RX Vega 64 has a higher frame rate (53 frames per second versus 45 fps) than the GTX 1080’s and a ceiling that’s just 2 fps lower. AMD Originally revealed the lineup of new RX 500 graphics cards on April 2017. Radeon RX 500-series is a perfect fit to the company’s new Ryzen 5 & Ryzen 7 processors and soon the THREADRIPPER CPUs. The Radeon RX 580 as the flagship of the RX 500 series has a 1,256MHz base and 1,340MHz boost clock so as you expect power consumption of about 150W to 185W. The Radeon RX 570 has a 1,168MHz base and 1,244MHz boost clock. Not huge but a mild. Yes, that’s a mild increase from the Radeon RX 470’s 1,206MHz maximum of course not the base line the base line has a bit of more increase.

New AMD Radeon RX VEGA 56, 64 & 64 Liquid

AMD First announced Vega back at CES 2017 in January for the first time.

AMD said the GPUs would deliver “more than 200% of the throughput-per-clock over previous Radeon architectures” in processing.

Then AMD unveiled the Radeon RX Vega line of GPUs at the SIGGRAPH conference in 2017. The Vega family has three main Vega graphics cards, two of them launched Aug. 14 2017.

RX VEGA Series Full Specs Table

AMD Radeon RX vega
Credit: AMD Radeon

The entry model is the Radeon RX Vega 56, with 56 compute units and will cost about $399. The Vega 56 is going to compete with the Gforce 1070. The Vega 56 ofcourse wins as it’s cheaper and faster in most tests too. This is great news for AMD and anyone wishing to buy a high-end graphics card. The next one is Radeon RX Vega 64, which will get about 64 units for an additional $100 on the cost. Not much out yet from the 3rd option though but as far as reported the $699 Vega 64 is Liquid Cooled and is only available with a Radeon Packs. The whole Vega series shipped on August 14th.

Compute Units	TFLOPS	Memory Size	Memory Interface
Radeon™ RX Vega⁶⁴	64 nCU 4096 Stream Processors	25.3 / 27.5/12.7 / 13.7 FP16 / FP32 Performance	8GB	2048 -bit
Radeon™ RX Vega⁵⁶	56 nCU 3584 Stream Processors	21/10.5 FP16 / FP32 Performance	8GB	2048 -bit

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
Credit: AMD Radeon

AMD Radeon RX Vega Specs
Credit: AMD Radeon

AMD released a benchmark from the vega series earlier when it was announced. AMD’s benchmarks indicate that the RX Vega 64 has a higher frame rate (53 frames per second versus 45 fps) than the GTX 1080’s and a ceiling that’s just 2 fps lower.

AMD Radeon RX Vega Specs
Credit: AMD Radeon

AMD Radeon RX VEGA Benchmarks

Radeon #RXVega‘s new features are taking PC gamers farther than before. Learn more about the features in Vega: https://t.co/JCJXv3fWoM

— Radeon RX (@Radeon) September 7, 2017

AMD Radeon RX Vega, benchmark
Credit: AMD Radeon

AMD Radeon RX Vega vs 1080 & 1080 TI benchmark

Here is a quick comparison between RX VEGA 64 VS Nvidia Gforce 1080 TI, The two big flagships of AMD and Nvidia now in gaming :

AMD Radeon RX Vega vs 1080 TI benchmark
Credit: AMD Radeon

AMD Radeon RX Vega vs 1080 TI benchmark
Credit: AMD Radeon

First it does not look that its much of a competitior for 1080 TI. But Maybe the most important advantage the 1080 ti has over the Vega 64 is the huge effective memory, but in all other areas its very close. Amd is yet to be releasing the newer models of Vega and this is still not the end for AMD.

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD RX Vega 64
Userbenchmark Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed: 156% vs 112%
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti – 2nd / 544
AMD RX Vega 64 – 6th / 544

The RX Vega 64 may not get the Ti version of the 1080 Graphics from Nvidia but It absolutely is the main competitor for the original Gforce 1080 graphic card.

Nvidia GTX 1080 vs AMD RX Vega 64
Userbenchmark Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed: 127% vs 112%
Nvidia GTX 1080 – 4th / 544
AMD RX Vega 64 – 6th / 544

Comparing the Radeon RX Vega 64, Rx Vega 56 and the Radeon R9 Fury X

AMD Radeon RX & Radeon R9 Fury X Specs and configs
	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
Stream Processors	4096 (64 CUs)	4096 (64 CUs)	3584 (56 CUs)	4096 (64 CUs)
Texture Units	256	256	224	256
ROPs	64	64	64	64
Base Clock	1406MHz	1247MHz	1156MHz	N/A
Boost Clock	1677MHz	1546MHz	1471MHz	1050MHz
Memory Clock	1.89Gbps HBM2	1.89Gbps HBM2	1.6Gbps HBM2	1Gbps HBM
Memory Bus Width	2048-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit	4096-bit
VRAM	8GB	8GB	8GB	4GB
Transistor Count	12.5B	12.5B	12.5B	8.9B
Board Power	345W	295W	210W	275W (Typical)
Manufacturing Process	GloFo 14nm	GloFo 14nm	GloFo 14nm	TSMC 28nm
Architecture	Vega (GCN 5)	Vega (GCN 5)	Vega (GCN 5)	GCN 3
GPU	Vega 10	Vega 10	Vega 10	Fiji
Launch Date	08/14/2017	08/14/2017	08/28/2017	06/24/2015
Launch Price	$699*	$499/599*	$399/499*	$649

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs AMD R9 Fury X Left : R9 Fury X – Right : Vega 64

AMD Introducing AMD Radeon RX Vega, Original Intro video

Amd earlier released this video to introduce the Vega series:

RX VEGA & Virtual Reality VR graphics

AMD New VEGA 64 Liquid cooler version from AMD in Twitter

.@Elmnator‘s unreal custom liquid cooled Radeon #RXVega PC at BYOC #PAXWest2017 pic.twitter.com/UPppnKuILc

— Radeon RX (@Radeon) September 4, 2017

This liquid-cooled Radeon #RXVega, signed by @GFXChipTweeter, looks sweet in lucky winner Joseph Harry’s PC. Bask in the glow! pic.twitter.com/wliMImz4oT

— Radeon RX (@Radeon) September 20, 2017

The New AMD Radeon RX 500 series Graphic cards

AMD Radeon RX 500 Specs – 570
Credit: AMD Radeon

AMD Originally revealed the lineup of new RX 500 graphics cards on April 2017. Radeon RX 500-series is a perfect fit to the company’s new Ryzen 5 & Ryzen 7 processors and soon the THREADRIPPER CPUs. The Radeon RX 580 as the flagship of the RX 500 series has a 1,256MHz base and 1,340MHz boost clock so as you expect power consumption of about 150W to 185W. The Radeon RX 570 has a 1,168MHz base and 1,244MHz boost clock. Not huge but a mild. Yes, that’s a mild increase from the Radeon RX 470’s 1,206MHz maximum of course not the base line the base line has a bit of more increase.

The Radeon RX 560 provides 1,175MHz/1,275MHz, respectively. In therm of the unit numbers the RX 460 only packed 14 compute units and the RX 560 rocks the full 16. All these mean that The new RX 500 option are bringing you much more performance than the lower entry level RX 400 series. But The 500 series continuation is depending on how AMD is going to release the new VEGA series. AMD may even plan to discontinue the RX 500 series and focus on the strong VEGA platform that is now competing in high end with graphic cards such as Nvidia 1080. Here The Radeon RX 500 Graphics brief specs:

Radeon RX 580

36 compute units¹
Up to 6.2 TFLOPS
256 bit Memory Bandwidth
8GB GDDR5

Radeon RX 570

32 compute units¹
Up to 5.1 TFLOPS
256 bit Memory Bandwidth
4/8GB GDDR5

Radeon RX 560

16 compute units¹
Up to 2.6 TFLOPS
128 bit Memory Bandwidth
2/4GB GDDR5

Radeon RX 550

Entry level Radeon RX Graphics

2/4GB GDDR5

Radeon RX 540

Entry level into Radeon RX Graphics

OEM Only
2/4GB GDDR5

AMD Radeon RX 500 Specs- 580 benchmark
Credit: AMD Radeon

The full Specs of the AMD RX 580, The flagship in RX 500 series

	Radeon RX 580
Compute Units	36
Stream Processors	2304
Clock Speeds (Boost / Base)	Up to 1340 MHz / Up to 1257 MHz
Peak Performance (TFLOPS)	Up to 6.2
Memory Speed (Effective)	Up to 8 Gbps
Texture Units	144
ROPs	32
Memory Bandwidth	Up to 256 GB/s
Memory Interface	256 bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
GCN Architecture	4^th Generation
AMD FreeSync Technology	Yes
DirectX® 12 and Vulkan® Support	Yes
HDMI	4K60 support
DisplayPort Version	1.4
HDCP	2.2

AMD Radeon RX 500 Specs- 580 benchmark
Credit: AMD Radeon

The AMD Radeon RX 400 series Graphic cards

AMD Radeon RX 480
Credit: AMD Radeon

The RX 400 series will offer >1.5 TFLOps performance and at least 100 GB/s of memory bandwidth as the base line of the whole series when first it was announced. The Radeon RX 480 has been a very popular graphics card worldwide, similar to the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 which maybe the most popular one in both mobile and desktop. However, the new Radeon RX 500-series are now released and It has got very hard to find a Radeon RX 400 and especially the RX 480 which is the flafship of the 400 series. The Radeon RX 500-series which we talked about earlier is set to replace the older Polaris GPUs entirely, meaning the RX 400-series cards are to be near the end of their life.

Radeon RX 480

36 compute units¹
Up to 5.8 TFLOPS
256 bit Memory Bandwidth
8GB GDDR5

Radeon RX 470

32 compute units¹
Up to 4.9 TFLOPS
256 bit Memory Bandwidth
8GB GDDR5

Radeon RX 460

14 compute units¹
Up to 2.2 TFLOPS
128 bit Memory Bandwidth
4GB GDDR5

The full Specs of the AMD RX 480, The flagship in RX 400 series

	RADEON™ RX 480 GRAPHICS
GCN ARCHITECTURE	4^th Generation
COMPUTE UNITS	36
STREAM PROCESSORS	2304
CLOCK SPEEDS (BOOST / BASE)	1266 MHz / 1120 MHz
PEAK PERFORMANCE	Up to 5.8 TFLOPS
MEMORY CLOCK SPEED (MHZ)	1750 or higher
MEMORY BANDWIDTH	224 GB/s or higher
MEMORY INTERFACE	256 bit
MEMORY TYPE	GDDR5
TYPICAL BOARD POWER	150W
RADEON FREESYNC™ TECHNOLOGY	Yes
DIRECTX® 12 SUPPORT	Yes
VULKAN™ SUPPORT	Yes
VIRTUAL SUPER RESOLUTION	Yes
HDMI VERSION	2.0
DISPLAYPORT VERSION	1.4 HDR Ready
AMD EYEFINITY TECHNOLOGY (MAXIMUM DISPLAYS)⁵	Up to 6 displays with DisplayPort MST hub

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs nvidia 1060 benchmark

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs nvidia 1060 benchmark
Credit: GPUBOSS

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AMD Radeon RX Vega, RX 500 Aimed To Beat Nvidia in High-End graphics in 2018

AMD Radeon RX Vega, RX 500 Aimed To Beat Nvidia in High-End graphics in 2018

AMD 2017-2018 | New high-end Radeon RX Vega, Radeon RX 500 Gaming graphics cards

2017 Was AMD’s Huge Come Back to Gaming CPU and Graphics market with Ryzen & Radeon RX! 2018 Could Be The Year For AMD domination over Nvidia & Intel in Gaming!