AMD Launches Radeon VII Flagship 7nm GPU
AMD Launches Radeon VII Flagship 7nm GPU
Written by John Ham Published Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 21:15Today AMD launched their response to NVIDIA's RTX series of graphics cards with a world first 7nm GPU based on second-generation Vega architecture. For those familiar with Vega 64 and 56 series of graphics cards, AMD continues the use of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and has doubled the capacity for this new flagship card to 16GB. Let's jump into the details and specifications of the new flagship card.
| Radeon VII | |
|---|---|
| Compute Units | 60 |
| Stream Processors | 3840 |
| Base Clock | 1400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1750 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1024GB/s |
| Memory Bus Width | 4096-bit |
| VRAM | 16GB (HBM2) |
| TDP | 300W |
| Launch Date | 2/7/2019 |
| MSRP | $699 |
Not only have they launched a card in direct competition with NVIDIA's RTX 2080, but AMD has also paired the launch with free games. AMD is providing digital keys for the latest AAA game release of Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5, and The Division 2.
AMD has promoted a 30% improvement for gaming and productivity compared to the Vega 64 previous generation flagship. They have also provided performance information on why 16GB of HBM2 will keep you prepared for future games and visual fidelity without hitting the memory wall.
