A radeon rx vega passes by 3dmark timespy matching the geforce gtx 1070

AMD Radeon RX VEGA is the new generation of AMD graphics cards based on the promising high-performance Vega architecture, these cards will come to fight with the most powerful solutions from Nvidia Pascal and are designed for very high resolutions thanks to HBM2 memory.

Radeon RX VEGA first shown in benchmark

A Radeon RX VEGA has gone through the 3DMark TimeSpy test accompanied by an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X processor. The card is identified with the name " 687F: C1 " and is still an engineering sample that operates at a speed of 1200 MHz. With this it is able to offer a maximum performance of 9.8 TFLOPs, a figure that is far from the 12.5 TFLOPs that AMD had promised. The card offers 8 GB of HBM2 memory with a bandwidth of 512 GB / s and is capable of offering a result of 5, 721 points.

AMD confirms the launch of RX Vega for this quarter

With this result, it is located a level very similar to the GeForce GTX 1070, a card that has been on the market for many months and that is not the highest end of Nvidia, far from it. We do not know if it is the top of the range model, assuming that this card has its 4, 096 stream processors unlocked it should reach a frequency of 1526 MHz to reach the promised 12.5 TFLOPs.

Vega is AMD's hope to fight back with the best Nvidia graphics cards but so far we haven't seen anything that they will actually be able to do, AMD has done very well with Ryzen processors so we are confident that It is capable of offering a graphical solution that lives up to what users expect. The bet for HBM2 memory has been very risky since it has forced to delay the launch of the cards until there is sufficient availability of memory chips, if the performance is not as expected it will have been useless.

Source: wccftech