AMD has lifted the lid on its eagerly awaited Radeon RX Vega graphics cards. RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 will be first to market, priced from $499 and $399, respectively, and a variety of Radeon Packs will be available for consumers wanting to buy into the Ryzen, Vega and FreeSync ecosystem.
Our benchmarks are due later this month, but Radeon fans hoping that Vega would steal the performance crown from Nvidia will likely be left wanting. AMD has confirmed that RX Vega 64 will compete with GeForce GTX 1080, leaving the 1080 Ti at the top of the pile, while RX Vega 56 will slug it out with GTX 1070.
AMD Radeon RX Vega Specifications |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Model | Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition |
Radeon RX Vega 64 |
Radeon RX Vega 56 |
| Vega 10 Compute Units | 64 |
64 |
56 |
| Stream Processors | 4,096 |
4,096 |
3,584 |
| Base Clock | 1,406MHz |
1,247MHz |
1,156MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1,677MHz |
1,546MHz |
1,471MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 484GB/s |
484GB/s |
410GB/s |
| Peak SP Performance | 13.7 TFLOPS |
12.7 TFLOPS |
10.5 TFLOPS |
| High Bandwidth Cache (HMB2) | 8GB |
8GB |
8GB |
| TDP | 345W |
295W |
210W |
| MSRP | $699 |
$499 |
$399 |
Vega's official specifications make for interesting reading, though the quoted TDPs may be cause for concern, and we wonder whether or not the MSRPs will remain intact if the mining community takes a liking to AMD's latest GPUs.
Plenty of food for thought, so after these latest developments let's gauge the community reaction by asking: are you considering AMD Radeon RX Vega? Let us know what you make of the GPUs, and the unexpected Radeon Packs, using the comments facility below.
