AMD Releases Additional Benchmarks for their Radeon VII GPU

WYP · #1 10-01-19, 10:29 AM

Is the Radeon VII a big leap over the RX Vega 64? 25 Games Tested!

Read more about the Radeon VII's gaming performance.

tolagarf · #2 10-01-19, 11:21 AM

It's a decent increase but it's just not good enough. I expected better. Now had they priced it at $600 instead of 700 that would had made a good difference for sure, but right now it seems to me that AMD is content on safely being no.2.

And what the heck is up with that cooler design?! It's certainly not winning any beauty contests and I have my doubts about its efficiency with much of the sides being closed off

AlienALX · #3 10-01-19, 11:25 AM

There are a few ways of looking at this.

1. It's very poor.
2. AMD finally reached 1080ti performance, but at a price.

And etc. I quite like the cooler. Reminds me of the 7990. What I do not like is the price, because for gaming that massive increase in HBM bandwidth will have little to no effect.

Like I said before, the sooner Vega goes away the better for AMD. It wasn't very good from the off.

tgrech · #4 10-01-19, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by tolagarf

It's a decent increase but it's just not good enough. I expected better. Now had they priced it at $600 instead of 700 that would had made a good difference for sure, but right now it seems to me that AMD is content on safely being no.2.

To be fair, being safely no.2 in a small fraction (IE the high end portion) of the PC gaming market is far from a big deal when they've got their fingers in so many pies(Some a lot more profitable and most reaching much larger audiences). They're still by a very long shot the most used GPU manufacturer for gaming(And will continue to be until at least 2025-2030 by the looks of the next gen consoles) so it makes sense they're not targeting the lowest volume portion of the gaming market with any big hitters.

Dawelio · #5 10-01-19, 12:44 PM

And are these numbers in 4K or in what resolution exactly? Can't find the answer in the article.

tgrech · #6 10-01-19, 12:52 PM

From the FPS numbers it looks like most of them are at 4K ~ultra settings (FO76 is a particularly VRAM heavy game from what I've heard which may explain that jump)

WYP · #7 10-01-19, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Dawelio

And are these numbers in 4K or in what resolution exactly? Can't find the answer in the article.

AMD specifies 4K Ultra settings for Strange Brigade and Battlefield V. Details for the others are missing from the press release.

AngryGoldfish · #8 10-01-19, 04:15 PM

The 1080Ti was launched at $700 on March 10, 2017 and ended up being roughly 20-30% faster than a Vega 64 (with a few outliers).

Radeon VII will be released Feb 7, 2019 for $700 and will be roughly 20-30% faster than Vega 64 (with a few outliers).

Underwhelming indeed.

NeverBackDown · #9 10-01-19, 06:54 PM

Of course the games I play are all the ones with the least performance increase

Giggyolly · #10 11-01-19, 07:35 AM

Was anyone actually expecting AMD to have a flagship to compete with 2080ti? Lets be realistic, they are still getting over the the past 5 years of having no money..

Most people were expecting AMD to come out whit a mid-tier Navi card, so I'm reasonably impressed they just dropped a high-end card without the silly hype train of the first Vega.

If the Radeon 7 was dropped at £600, I would be 100% game, the value proposition would be there, so the price is a little disappointing.. But at least AMD can compete with 90% of Nvidia's product stack... by all means spend £1.2k on a graphics card though lol