While not a slam-dunk, the Radeon VII definitely shows AMD can get at least close to NVIDIA’s RTX cards, and that should make all of us quite happy – NVIDIA has had this market to itself for far too long, and it’s showing in the arrogant pricing the company maintains. It’s still an uphill battle, but with Radeon VII and Vega 20, AMD is now one more step up that hill. It’s going to win AMD business today, and it’s going to help prepare AMD for tomorrow for the next phase that is Navi. They can compete on performance, and thanks to Vega 20 they have a new slew of compute features to work with.
It’s not a win for AMD, but being able to compete with NVIDIA at this level means just that: AMD is still competitive. So where does this leave AMD? Fortunately for the Radeon rebels, their situation is improved even if the overall competitive landscape hasn’t been significantly changed. However for pure gamers, it’s a little too difficult to suggest this card instead of NVIDIA’s better performing GeForce RTX 2080. That means instead of delivering 6.7 TFLOPS of FP64 like the MI50, Radeon VII will be closer to 862 GFLOPS (it’s 1:32 with half-precision like RX Vega). And at its $699 price point, that’s not a bad place to occupy. Overall then, the Radeon VII puts its best foot forward when it offers itself as a high-VRAM prosumer card for gaming content creators. Until today, the highest FP64 performance you could buy in a consumer GCN GPU was the Radeon 7990, a short-lived dual-GPU product that’s nearly five years old. Just before launch, the company decided to double the FP64 performance once again, bringing us to 1:4 FP32. People clapped, and AMD apparently enjoyed the response.
AMD RADEON VII FP64 PC
AnandTech has published its review of AMD’s surprise new high-end Radeon VII graphics card, and the results should be cause for some cautious optimism among PC builders. Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 6. AMD whet the appetites of those hoping for strong FP64 performance with Radeon VII when it said it would be double what RX Vega offered.
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