AMD Radeon VII 16 GB review (updated)
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Lavcat
Thanks!
Denial
So FP64 is 1:4? How is that the specs got misreported on that twice lol?
Card looks great in DX12.
Undying
Interesting card. Considering its a Vega56 7nm this performance uplift is amazing. I im sure AMD will push 64cu 7nm chip later this year, maybe even before Navi hits.
fantaskarsef
That does sound like a rather neat gaming card too. I just think it's quite loud under load... might be a good candidate for non-reference coolers, if those come around.
fantaskarsef
Well, we shall see in two years from now, what's faster: 2080, 1080TI or Radeon VII 😉
OnnA
OMG That's a Beast !!!
THX H.H. 😀
PS.
As i said, It will be Faster and consumes less tW.
BIOS Board power is set (like in V64) at 264tW.
Now UV and OC HBM2 (>1TB/s lol) and give -8% POW -> You end up with same FPS but 220-245tW
Undying
Many reviewers said driver is not ready yet performance and overclocking will improve.
chispy
Great review Boss , thank you. I feel they need good drivers asap as the performance is all over the place , once the drivers are more optimized we shall see the true performance , meanwhile it looks like the card it is doing great at high resolutions and that HBM huge frame buffer and bandwidth surely helps a lot there. Price is a little on the high side.
TheDeeGee
What a noisy bastard...
TPU reports the same.
Undying
@Hilbert Hagedoorn RE2 remake and upcoming Anthem/Metro games will be nice include instead of some older ones on the list there. 😉
metagamer
The performance seems all over the place. Could be the drivers. Overall though, it loses to the 2080 more often than not and costs the same. It's loud and consumes more power than the 2080ti. Pretty poor from AMD, should be cheaper.
gx-x
Ah it's good to have competition, so that you can know exactly how much to overprice something after they have already done it. 😀
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H83
A very nice card with a "crappy" cooler, curious to see this card with a good custom cooler. But most of all, this card is too expensive just like the 2080 and 2080Ti... The prices of high end cards are simply ridiculous!
Great review as always Hilbert!
alanm
Thanks H, nice review. Seems if its one thing AMD is consistent at, is its inconsistency in performance. Finally an AMD ref cooled card that is not hot and loud, it is now cool and loud. Guess some tinkering with fan speeds is in order. I think this card will sell well, even at its price. For those with strong faith in AMDs fine wine driver development, it'll be a buy for sure.
pharma
Definitely overpriced, and I guess those missing Vega features from Vega still don't work. Glad to see some competitive gains on the 7 nm node.
Denial
Gn tried it - the contact area on the die isn't even so the results were mixed.
schmidtbag
Considering how cool this GPU operates under load, seems like the fan speeds could be dropped a bit. In addition to that, lower the voltage while maintaining the clock speed and I'm sure you could save up to 50W while making it even quieter (where some of that saved wattage would be the reduced fan speed).
Anyway, I'm not interested in getting this, but it leaves me hopeful about Navi.
I too think there are driver issues. The results are way too inconsistent. I understand that some games are Nvidia optimized but the RVII is jumping between multiple performance tiers.
EDIT:
Just checked out Linux benchmarks (where the AMD drivers are completely different from the Windows ones, but Nvidia drivers are mostly the same). Seems to have much more consistent performance there, where I'd say on average it's about the same as the 2080. Interestingly, the performance-per-watt isn't really a whole lot different than the 2080, at least in tests where their level of performance was similar.
JamesSneed
This card fared much better than I expected. Not bad for a card that almost wasn't until Nvidia increased prices so much so on the RTX 2080 it allowed them to put this out as a prosumer card. I bet AMD has pretty slim margins on these cards as that 16GB of HBM2 has to be pretty pricey along with the 331mm2 chip.
Kaarme
The performance varied so much that it's impossible to avoid thinking the driver support is poor at the moment. If it's not that, then there's something wrong about the card.
Alessio1989
So it's a poor version of the Instinct with unimproved and horrible fan cooling.
