AMD Radeon RX Vega reference card spotted
AMD is so, so close to launching its new Radeon RX Vega graphics card and now we have an 'official' shot of the consumer RX Vega offering courtesy of a sample received by Kyle at HardOCP.
AMD asked Kyle to compare Radeon RX Vega against the GeForce GTX 1080 and not the GTX 1080 Ti, with Kyle saying: "Just a little tease here as to what is coming this week. RX Vega FreeSync vs. GTX 1080 Ti G-Sync Blind Gaming test video being edited now. All done at my house, with gamers with a couple hundred years of twitch gaming experience. All system UEFI and OS set up by me personally. AMD wanted me to use a 1080".
Kyle continued: "ASUS hand delivered this card to my house on Saturday morning, and took it with them Saturday evening. That all said, this card was an engineering sample but I was specifically told that it was representative of retail product. So basically a "reference" card built outside of mass production".
We can see from this photo that it looks identical to the Radeon RX 480 reference card, which looked great - for a mid-range card in 2015, but it's 2017 and this is the best graphics card AMD is making for gamers. Remember it's only a reference card, with AIB partner cards to look much better, and I'm sure run faster and cooler, too.
