Video Cards & GPUs - Page 315

AMD is just a week away from the release of its Radeon VII graphics card which will be the world's first 7nm gaming GPU and will rock an incredible 16GB of HBM2 with over 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth. Well, ASRock couldn't wait for the release and detailed the entire of its upcoming Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII graphics card on its website.

ASRock details that its new Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII will have its Vega 20 GPU clocked at 1400MHz base and 1750MHz boost, all on the 7nm GPU node. The 16GB of HBM2 memory is on a wider 4096-bit memory bus that results in an absolutely huge 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth, destroying every single GeForce GTX and GeForce RTX graphics card on the planet in memory bandwidth alone.

In the post on its website, ASRock says the new Radeon VII is ready for the current world of high frame rate UltraWide, 1440p, and 4K monitors by saying that the "Radeon VII GPU is in a class of its own".

AMD is just a week away from the release of its Radeon VII with our sample not far away, early benchmarks have leaked teasing purported 3DMark results with the 4K run of Fire Strike Ultra and DX12-powered Time Spy benchmarks. I've inserted the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra into one of my benchmark charts so you can see where the performance of Radeon VII will fall in.

By the leaked benchmarks that Twitter user TUM_APISAK posted from the 3DMark database, we can see the Radeon VII beating NVIDIA's now two-year-old GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and newly-released GeForce RTX 2080 but it loses to both the TITAN Xp and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. This is just the 4K run of the DX11-based Fire Strike Ultra benchmark, with some different results in the DX12 run of Time Spy.

Things get interesting in the Time Spy leaked benchmark result as the new Radeon VII loses to both the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080, which it just beat in the leaked Fire Strike Ultra results. In this benchmark we have scores of:

AMD has released a new set of BETA drivers to line up with the huge release of Resident Evil 2 and the recent release of Anthem which is in Early Access form right now, with the new Radeon Adrenalin 2019 19.1.2 BETA drivers.

The new drivers have support for Resident Evil 2 Remake, Tropico 6, and Anthem Early Access which features up to 7% more performance on the Radeon RX 580 at 1080p over the previous 19.1.1 drivers. There are the usual issues fixed in games like Battlefield V, Rocket League, and more. The new Radeon Adrenalin 19.1.2 BETA drivers are compatible with most Radeon products, with the latest Radeon RX 400/500 series and RX Vega cards at the top of the heap.

AMD will be launching its new Navi GPU across multiple price points later this year, with the new 7nm GPU expected to come in four different flavors with varying specs under the Navi 16, Navi 12, Navi 10, and Navi 9 GPUs.

Each of the different GPUs should include varying amounts of Compute Units (CUs), VRAM, memory buses, and more. We should expect more mid-to-high-end performance from Navi with much better power numbers than Vega or Polaris thanks to the shift to 7nm and the changes AMD has made to the Navi architecture with its direct input from Sony for the development of the next-gen PlayStation 5 console.

The new GPUs were discovered in Apple's recent MacOS Mojave update source code, with the file named "AMDRadeon6000HWServiceskext". This isn't fully confirmed just yet, but we're just reporting from what VideoCardz posted by TonyMacx86.

Exclusive: AMD surprised the world with the announcement of the Radeon VII during CES 2019 last week, with it being the surprise announcement before its bigger unveiling of Navi towards June/July this year.

The new Radeon VII otherwise known as Radeon 7 is a revamped Vega graphics card, where at the end of the day it's just a Radeon Instinct MI50 accelerator that was released in November last year. We have the same Vega 20 GPU on the fresh new 7nm node, the same 16GB of HBM2 memory, and similar GPU clocks to the new Radeon VII graphics card.

Since the announcement I reached out to some industry contacts who said there will be "less than 5000" made. The same source said AMD is losing money on each card sold as they are, as I said before, just Radeon Instinct MI50 cards that are being re-purposed into 'new' Radeon VII cards.

CES 2019 - AMD is promising many more Radeon graphics cards to be released in the year, with CTO Mark Papermaster chatting with The Street about an entire new wave of Radeon cards coming in the year.

Papermaster confirmed AMD isn't shifting away from the mid-range market since its debut of the higher-end Radeon VII unveiled during CES 2019, with Papermaster saying: "We are really excited to start on the high-end with our 7nm Radeon VII and you will see the announcements over the course of the year as we refresh across our Radeon program".

I would expect to see Navi unveiled just before or during Computex 2019 and priced lower than Radeon VII (which costs $699). There is a huge gap between the newly-refreshed-refreshed-again Radeon RX 590 which is based on the 12nm node and third-time-refreshed Polaris 10 architecture. Radeon RX 590 costs $279 and there's nothing between that and the upcoming Radeon VII apart from Radeon RX Vega 56/64. Older cards that consume way too much power, and leave gamers buying GeForce RTX 2060 and GTX 1070/1070 Ti/1080 because they're far more power efficient.

CES 2019 - NVIDIA had its own big CES 2019 press conference a few days ago where it made the GeForce RTX 2060 graphcis card official, while it was AMD's turn yesterday with their CES 2019 presser and the unveiling of the new Radeon VII graphics card.

Radeon VII will be arriving as the world's first 7nm graphics card for gamers, with a huge 16GB of HBM2 memory with 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth for $699. It launches on February 7, and all within 24 hours we've had NVIDIA's founder and CEO Jensen Huang talk about AMD's return to the enthusiast end of PC graphics cards as "underwhelming".

Gordon Ung from PCWorld spoke to the NVIDIA CEO, where he asked Huang about his thoughts on the just-announced Radeon VII graphics card, with Huang saying "it's underwhelming. The performance is lousy and there's nothing new". He added there's "no ray tracing, no AI. It's 7nm with HBM memory that barely keeps up with a 2080. And if we turn on DLSS we'll crush it. And if we turn on ray tracing we'll crush it".

CES 2019 - AMD has just announced its new Radeon VII graphics card at CES 2019, dropping the Vega brand it seems and going for VII. The new Radeon VII graphics card rocks a 7nm Vega GPU and 16GB of HBM2 memory with a huge 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth. This is the world's first 7nm graphics card to hit the market, beating NVIDIA with a major technical win - it's also the first gaming graphics card with HBM2 capable of 1TB/sec, absolutely insane.

AMD's new Radeon VII graphics card has 3840 stream processors, less than the 4096 stream processors on the Vega 10 GPU inside of the Radeon RX Vega 64. However, the new Radeon VII has 16GB of HBM2 which has a much larger 1TB/sec memory bandwidth, double the HBM2 bandwidth available on the Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card.

The new Radeon VII has 25% more performance at the same levels as the RX Vega 64, with dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors and a much-improved triple-fan cooler that should keep the GPU clocks up at close to 1.8GHz. The average boost CPU clock on the original Radeon RX Vega 64 was 1546MHz so the boost to 1800MHz on Radeon VII is pretty significant. The new HBM2 memory is on a larger 4096-bit memory bus and faster 2Gbps HBM2 (compared to 1.89Gbps on the HBM2 on Vega 10) - oh, and double the amount at 16GB that provides the huge 1TB/sec.

NVIDIA already has four members in its GeForce RTX family of graphics cards with the just-launched RTX 2060, and previously launched RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. But what if you took the ray tracing cores out of the situation? Well, that could be what the purported GeForce GTX 11 series is after all.

A new GeForce GTX 1180 graphics card has surfaced on GFXBench, with software recognizing the card as a GeForce GTX 2080 which means if this is real, it is an RTX 2080 with its ray tracing cores disabled. They're still there on-hardware with the Turing GPU, but they're disabled so that it's a nutured and RTX-less RTX 2080 in performance. It makes sense considering the GDDR6 performance gains over GDDR5/X as well, with a GTX 11 series something that makes sense when the GTX 10 series is finally phased out.

I think we'll see RTX 20 series cards mass produced with lower-quality dies having their Tensor and RT cores disabled and rebranded as GTX 11 series cards, something that will surely compete against the Radeon RX 590 from AMD as well as whatever the new Navi GPU ends up as being. Last we heard Navi will feature Vega-like performance, which means we should expect GTX 1080/1180 performance (RTX 2080 with RT disabled). Interesting if true...

CES 2019 - EVGA took one of its new Z390 Dark motherboards to the Consumer Electronics Show and had it in their suite showing it off in all of its enthusiast glory. We're talking E-ATX form favor, crazy 17-phase VRM on a 10-layer PCB, and so much more.

This is the everything-including-the-kitchen sink motherboard from EVGA in its Z390 Dark board, which as we said before comes with 17-phase VRM on a 10-layer PCB, but an EVGA-embedded wireless solution, 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, and more. We have the 24-pin ATX and 2 x 8-pin power connectors with right-angle connectors so there is not a huge amount of cables coming vertically off of the motherboard. This is especially helpful for people changing out hardware like CPUs, RAM, and GPUs all the tiem as it means the huge 24-pin ATX power cable is not in the way, and neither are the 8-pin power connectors going into the motherboard.

EVGA's new Z390 Dark motherboard has 4 x DIMMs that support up to 32GB of DDR4-4600+, dual 1GbE network ports, Creative Sound Core3D audio, 2-way SLI support, M.2 SSD ports, SATA6 ports, and plenty of USB connectivity to boot.