Amd radeon vii review in Spanish (full analysis)

The computer community and especially the gamer from all over the world, has been waiting for this new AMD Radeon VII with great desire. It is a graphics card with which AMD has been able to position itself in the high-end market again thanks to this unique 7nm GPU on the market. A card that promises to battle and even surpass in some respects an entire RTX 2080.

Like you, we also really wanted to have access to this card and see what it is capable of in our test group. Do you think it will live up to what it promises? Let's see it!

We thank AMD for the assignment of this product to carry out this expected analysis.

AMD Radeon VII technical features

AMD Radeon VII
Chipset	Radeon Vega 2nd generation
Processor speed	Base frequency: 1400 MHz Turbo frequency: 1800 MHz
Number of graphics cores	Stream processors: 3840 Units of computation: 60
Memory size	16 GB HBM2 at 4 Gbps
Memory bus	4096 bit at 1024 GB / s
DirectX	DirectX 12 Vulkan OpenGL 4.6
Size	267 x 121 x 40 (2 slots)
TDP	300W
Price	700 euros

Unboxing and design

How could it be otherwise, this AMD Radeon VII is presented to us in a strong thick cardboard box under a glossy black background and abundant information about the product. We also have the corresponding photos of it in full color, thus forming a gala presentation for the first 7nm graphics card on the market.

Inside the box we find a product perfectly accommodated in a high density foam block in an upright position and inserted in an antistatic bag to preserve the integrity of its architecture.

This AMD Radeon VII is one of the great hardware-related presentations of this year 2019 by AMD. With its new 7nm lithograph for its GPU manufactured by TSMC we have a card that enters the top of a market always crowded by Nvidia. Although in this case we are facing a feature that will place it on a par with the RTX 2080, although with one element to take into account and that is that this new Radeon VII does not implement processing cores dedicated to Ray Tracing or Deep Learning, unlike Nvidia's RTX.

There is no doubt that the dimensions of this AMD Radeon VII are quite considerable, with the presence of a large heatsink made of aluminum with three fans to provide us with cooling to match the performance of this GPU. The abandonment of the classic turbine heatsinks is already a fact before hardware with such high heat release. In this case we have a card 267 mm long, 121 mm wide and 40 mm high, so we will only need two expansion slots for it.

On the back of this card we have the presence of a large backplate entirely made of aluminum that will provide us with extra rigidity and protection to the set. In it we can see that the access to the heatsink screws have been kept free to be able to disassemble it without too much work.

The connectivity in this AMD Radeon VII is not too detailed, since we will have a total of three DisplayPort 1.4b ports and an HDMI 2.0 port. Of course with these versions, we will have full compatibility of AMD FreeSync 2 HDR and Super Virtual Resolution (VSR). Something we miss in a card of this caliber is the presence of a USB Type-C port to connect VR glasses.

With this new 7nm card, talking about smaller transistors doesn't mean talking about lower power consumption. We have a graph that registers a TDP of 300 W, a rather impressive figure that recommends the use of a power supply of about 700 or 750 W so that our PC does not lack food.

Of course, remember that the Radeon Vega 64 signed a TDP of 295 W with a performance well below the new GPU, in fact, the manufacturer figures the performance improvement at x1.3 times that of the previous top range. For power supply, the manufacturer has installed two 6 + 2-pin power connectors. In any case, we will see its actual consumption as soon as we reach the testing phase.

Hardware and features

After evaluating its external appearance, it is time to know in more detail what the technical characteristics of this AMD Radeon VII are, as well as the dissipation block that AMD has proposed.

The dissipation block is entirely made of aluminum with high-density finning and is largely visible from the outside. To improve heat transfer to it, a copper block in contact with the GPU using a premium thermal compound has been used. In the same way, elements as important as the power supply phases are also in contact with the block by means of thermal pads.

What we have in our hands consists of a Vega 20 or 2nd generation architecture graphics processor under a 7nm FinFET manufacturing process with a count of 13.2 Billion transistors. This GPU is capable of working at a base frequency of 1400 MHz with a 1800 MHz turbo mode, which is a considerable figure. Inside we have 60 computing units and 3, 840 transmission processors. In this case we still do not have nuclei dedicated to Ray Tracing in real time, so RTX technology is still the only one to give this possibility.

However, the performance figures of this AMD Radeon VII are 13.8 TFLOPs (floating point calculations) that even exceed those of the RTX 2080 Ti, with 13.4 TFLOPs. Also, we have a pixel fill rate of 115.56 GP / s and 432.24 GT / s for texture fill. So in raw processing power, this new GPU is impressive.

We come to see the characteristics of its Graphic RAM memory, which in this case we follow the Vega line with a memory of type HBM2, although with much higher performance. In this case it mounts no less than 16 GB of memory at an effective speed of 4 Gbps, but with a bus width of no less than 4096 bits, which provides a bandwidth of 1 TB / s (1024 GB / s) exceeding thus any record marked to date by another desktop graph. We can say that the low effective speed of memory is more than compensated for by the incredible bus width.

With this card we can play content in 8K at 60 Hz and compatibility with DirectX 12, Vulkan, OpenGL 4.6 and OpenCL 2.0. In addition to AMD's own technologies such as AMD FreeSync 2HDR, Radeon VR Ready Premium, AMD Zero Core Power and Radeon Relive, among others, to provide an improved environment under the best optimized consumption possible.

Many manufacturers have already chosen to create their own customized versions of this new Radeon VII, which raised many doubts at first, giving the possibility that even no manufacturer had access to said architecture. As it could not be otherwise, the first analysis should be that of this base version of AMD, to see its capabilities without subsequent modifications. Already AMD provides us with information that places this card at 1.3 times the performance of the Radeon Vega 64, which despite having more stream processors (4096) and 60 computing units, cannot compete with the renewed architecture and the Brutal 4094 bits of memory bus width for this Radeon VII.

Next, we will go to see the performance of this AMD Radeon VII in our test bench and with the games of the moment.

Test bench and performance tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel Core i9-9900K
Base plate:	Asus Maximus XI Formula
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 16 GB @ 3600 MHz
Heatsink	Corsair H100i V2
HDD	Kingston UV400
Graphic card	AMD Radeon VII
Power supply	Corsair RM1000X

For benchmarks we will use the following titles:

• 3DMark Fire Strike normal. 3Mark Fire Strike 4K version. Time Spy.VRMARK.

All tests have been passed with the filters to the maximum unless we indicate otherwise. In order to have adequate performance, we have carried out three types of tests: the first is the most common at Full HD 1920 x 1080, the second resolution is making the leap for 2K or 1440P (2560 x 1440P) gamers and the most enthusiastic with 4K (3840 x 2160). The operating system we have used has been Windows 10 Pro 64 bit and the latest drivers available from the AMD website.

What are we looking for in the tests?

First, the best possible image quality. The most important value for us is the average FPS (Frames per second), the higher the number of FPS the more fluid the game will go. To differentiate the quality a bit, we leave you a table to assess the quality in FPS, but we will also have the minimum Fps in the tests that were thus possible:

FRAMES BY SECONDS
Frames for Seconds. (FPS)	Gameplay
Less than 30 FPS	Limited
30 ~ 40 FPS	Playable
40 ~ 60 FPS	Good
Greater than 60 FPS	Fairly Good or Excellent

Game Testing

We have decided to make the leap to checking various games manually. The reason? Very simple, we want to give a much more realistic vision and cover tests with current games

Temperature and consumption

The truth is that the graphics card behaves very well at the temperature level. Perhaps the biggest paste is found at rest, since it reaches 44 ºC, counting that the fans are always turned. In idle it is very quiet but when we load it, things change and we start to hear the hum that these heatsinks from AMD so characteristic in their reference version emits.

As we can see the photos taken with our Flir One PRO thermal camera, we obtain very careful temperatures after 12 hours. Very good construction by AMD, but we missed a more decisive heatsink in this model, which at first were not going to arrive custom models.

Consumption is for the entire team *

Consumption is key and you can see the good hand AMD has had at rest. With just 58 W we have a powerful computer but with very little consumption, at the level of the RTX 2080. We like less to see the 482 W at full power the processor and the graphics, although in its natural state with 100% stress GPU, it is at 363 W.

Final words and conclusion about AMD Radeon VII

We believe that the AMD Radeon VII is a very good graphics card, but it is focused more on mixed use: professional and sporadic in gaming than exclusive to gaming. Since there are currently more powerful solutions for players and more interesting given their current price.

In games we have been able to verify that it performs very well. It can be played decently at 4K in most games at + 50 FPS, but it lacks that extra to have a stable + 60 FPS, which is what we expect from a graphics card in this category.

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The point that we see most improvable is noise when it is at maximum power. We think that AMD has to give a twist to its reference heatsink and mount something TOP like other companies do. For the rest it seems to us a very well thought-out product that offers a very good performance.

Its current price is 745 euros in the main online stores. We believe mounting a total of 16GB HBM2 has skyrocketed its price. We know its gross power (which is remarkably high) and with a slight decrease in price plus an optimization of drivers, we can see a graph that can give many joys this year.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ 16 GB HBM2	- PRICE
+ GOOD TEMPERATURES	- IT IS LOUD IN LOAD
+ GOOD PERFORMANCE
+ IDEAL FOR WORKSTATION AND SPORADIC GAMING
+ GOOD CONSUMPTION

The professional review team awards you the GOLD medal and recommended product.

AMD Radeon VII

COMPONENT QUALITY - 85%

DISSIPATION - 84%

GAMING EXPERIENCE - 88%

SOUND - 70%

PRICE - 75%

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