AMD's high-end GPU "Radeon RX Vega" officially released, can you compete with NVIDIA's GTX 10 series?

AMD adopts a new microarchitecture "Vega" Graphic board "Radeon RX VegaWe officially announced the series. The previous generation "PolarisIn the middle rangeRX 480· Since the high-performance model was not released with the RX 580 stop, AMD's high-end graphic board will be released for the first time in 2 generations. AMD seems to challenge with high cost performance for NVIDIA's GTX 10 generation high-end GPU, which is a strong rival.

Radeon RX Vega Unveiled: AMD Announces $ 499 RX Vega 64 & $ 399 RX Vega 56, Launching August 14th
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11680/radeon-rx-vega-unveiled-amd-announecs-499-rx-vega-64-399-rx-vega-56-launching-in-august

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 Official Details Announced
http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-56-official-slide-performance-specs-price-leak/

"Radeon RX Vega 64" is a GPU that adopts the Vega 10 architecture. Base clock is 1247 MHz, boost clock is 1546 MHz, HBM 2 (8 GB) with bandwidth 484 GB / s is adopted. There are 64 operation units (CU: Compute Unit) and the number of Stream Processor (SP) is 4096. Since 64 CUs are installed, it is named "RX Vega 64". Single precision floating point operation (FP32) performance exceeds 11.3 TFLOPS of 12.66 TFLOPS and rival NVIDIA high-end model "GeForce GTX 1080 Ti". Yet the standard model of RX Vega 64 is $ 499 (about 55,000 yen), which is the same price as the price revised NVIDIA's previous high-end model "GTX 1080". In addition, the CU of the Vega generation supports half-precision floating point operation (FP16), and by parallel processing 16-bit operation with a 32-bit pipeline, it emits 25.3 TFLOPS twice that of FP32 in FP16 performance.


Reference model is DisplayPort × 3 + HDMI × 1.


The GPU die size of Vega 10 is 486 square millimeters. It is manufactured in 14 nm process.


Compared to the GPU die (right) of the high-end model "Radeon R9 Fury X" equipped with "Fiji" two generations ago, Vega 10 (left) is as small as about 80%. However, FP32 performance has improved by 47%.


However, the performance in the game is R9 Fury X ratio, about only 30 more increase.


In the game performance comparison on the landscape screen of 3440 × 1440, the object is not GTX 1080 Ti but the former high-end model GTX 1080 is used, and the maximum value of the frame rate is somewhat inferior. Regarding the performance in actual games, it seems necessary to wait for various verifications such as benchmark comparison after release.


In addition, the upper model also includes "RX Vega 64 Limited Edition" of aluminum enclosure. The price is 599 dollars (about 66,000 yen)


The auxiliary power supply is 8 pins × 2. The Vega logo enters to the left, the LED turns on "R" at the corner.


Water cooling model "RX Vega 64 Limited Liquid Cooled Edition" overclocked to base clock 1406 MHz / boost clock 1677 MHz is 13.7 TFLOPS in FP 32 performance and 27.5 TFLOPS in FP 16 performance. The price is 699 dollars (about 77,000 yen)


A unit of a water cooling cooler looks like this. As TDP is 345 W and it is higher than the GeForce GTX 10 series, it seems necessary to have a water-cooled cooler to achieve the best performance.


The RX Vega 64 series will be released in August 2017.


Also, RX Vega has 56 CU and 3584 RX Vega 56 inexpensive version, price is $ 399 (about 44,000 yen), cost performance is high.


The base clock is 1156 MHz, the boost clock is 1471 MHz and the frequency is suppressed RX Vega 56 is relatively easy to handle with TDP of 210 W.


By the way, in the North American market there is a discount coupon in which the LCD monitor compatible with FreeSync turns off for 200 dollars (about 22,000 yen), the set of CPU's Ryzen 7+ motherboard turns off 100 dollars (about 11,000 yen) and two PC games A limited pack called "Radeon Pack" will be released with the title enclosed.


The price of Radeon Pack which can receive discount equivalent to a total of 420 dollars (about 46,000 yen) is RX Vega 56 and RX Vega 64 (standard model) are up 100 dollars (about 11,000 yen) from the unit price For RX Vega 64 Limited Liquid Cooled Edition and RX Vega 64 Limited Edition of aluminum enclosure, it seems to be an unqualified campaign with real benefit same as unit price, with benefits of 420 dollars for real free. Whether similar campaigns will be held in limited numbers or in other areas is unknown at the time of article creation.


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As with the Radeon R9 series, half-size "RX Vega Nano" appears also in Vega 10 generation. Combined with Mini-ITX size Ryzen 7 compatible motherboard, it seems possible to create ultra-small PC with pure AMD specification.