Amd Shares More Details On 7nm Radeon VII

AMD has shared more details on the features and more performance tests on the new Radeon VI I graphics card, recently announced at CES 2019.

More details on Radeon VII and performance comparisons

AMD proved that it hasn't thrown in the towel in the high-performance graphics card segment, with a 7nm GPU that promises to rival Nvidia's RTX 2080.

AMD Radeon VII with Vega 7nm architecture comes with 3840 Stream Processors, which means the GPU doesn't have all cores enabled. To justify the cost, the full chip is likely reserved for the Radeon Pro / Instinct series. Unless AMD is still planning to introduce the 'full' GPU for gaming later. Recall that Vega 64 has 4096 Stream Processors.

These might suggest AMD launch a more powerful graphics card than Radeon VII, perhaps to rival the RTX 2080 Ti directly, but this is only speculation.

What we have learned from AMD's presentation is that the GPU is built on a 7nm, 331mm2 node, up from the RTX 2080's 12nm and 545mm2. The AMD solution has twice the memory (16 vs. 8 GB), which is also twice as fast (1TB / s vs. 0.45TB / s). It doesn't have Tensor cores or RT core equivalents, but is this really that important right now for gaming? That will depend on each one.

New comparative performance

According to the benchmarks that are emerging from AMD, the red team insists on buying it with the RX Vega 64 and the performance jump is quite significant. Of course, AMD is extremely careful not to buy it too much with the RTX 2080, it would have been more than interesting to also include those results in the comparison.

We have no way of knowing how efficient this new Vega 7nm graphics card really is, we will know this from February 7th, which is its release date.

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