First off, day 1. I still remember telling folk that Vega 7nm is coming to gamers and they kept telling me about the Radeon Instinct MI60. Well here it is.......
VII not VIII.
2017 performance(1080 Ti) at the 2017 price while using more power. Those who picked up 1080 Ti's last year for $600 got a steal(compared to this). Doubly so if they have adaptive-sync monitors.
Looks like we're back at "wait for Navi".
Performance is more important than spending an extra $5 in electricity a year. If you are such a proponent of $800-1200 for RTX and noisy DLSS IQ at 1440p render, passed on as 4k, then be my guest. Yet, you should stop being so disingenuous about it all, talking about savings at the power meter, when you're defending such expensive NV cards with one RTX game after 4 months, less ram than Radeon 7, and which will also cheaper than its direct NV competitor.
A $699 card packed with 16gb of HBM, with much higher bandwidth, double the rops is exactly what Vega needed, this will be a better 4K card than RTX 2080 and it will also be a much better workstation card too........Let's be honest, only a few persons are buying 2080ti for shirts and giggles, Vega 7 caters to a wider demographic that want to game and do production work. Two birds, one stone, cheaper price than 2080. Looks like a winner to me...
Well, I'll stick to my AUROS 1080Ti thank you very much. And now that we know the price for Radeon VII, I highly doubt that 9900K analogue from AMD will have very attractive and competitive price.
Ha, something tells me you never intended to part with your high end NV card for an AMD card anyway...I mean, the 1080ti is a pretty good card, your path to an upgrade is surely a 2080ti, but the markup to upgrade is so ridiculous on NV's side, that many simply won't.......I hope folk were not expecting 2080ti level of performance at $700.00 on Vega architecture reduced to 7nm.....HBM2 is still pretty expensive...It seems people are only interested in AMD if they give stuff away.....
Yet, I think the Radeon 7nm will easily outperform the 1080ti in games at 4k....
Yes ? It's 7nm processor. It should be as powerful . The price for the card is premium as well
It's not a brand new architecture, it's still Vega at 7nm....A 2080ti is $1200.....Maybe for $1200 they could double the CU's, go 24GB on memory, would you be game then?
No way PS5 will have 13 Tflops if AMD's high end 2019 GPU is only 13.8 Tflops on 7nm.
AMD's high end GPU in 2019 is based on Vega architecture with a die shrink, it's not a "new" architecture like Turing.....That comes a bit later in the year with NAVI.....Yet at this pricepoint, Radeon 7 should make a dent....
This will perform between the RTX 2080 and 2080ti, higher bandwidth, much more memory than the competitor....This is what 4k needs, more bandwidth and memory, more rops, higher clocks.....Vega clearly needed to be fed a bit more and that is rectified here...Also, content creation thrives on memory, so the cards will do well in the market....till NAVI arrives......I'm pretty sure yields are not that great on the 7nm process yet, so the fact that AMD could deliver a gaming GPU on 7nm so soon when everybody said it would not happen is testament.....
I also think the shipment might be smaller than we expect, so I'll grab mine early. Maybe AMD is using out the rest of it's Vega silicon at 7nm, where the process will mature moreso by Navi's launch....It clearly looks like current Vega is being cleared out of the market anyway......The demos you saw was on a preview driver as well, and don't forget that RTX 2080FE is already overclocked....There should be lots of room to overclock Radeon 7 at 7nm if it already boosts to 1800Mhz on reference cards.....With the amount of Vram this card has, the amount of Rops and the higher bandwidth, you better watch out when this card is overclocked to 2000-2100Mhz......It will be a beast at 4K, with less stuttering and smoother graphs over it's NV competitor......