![]() A patch is coming Shadow of the Tomb Raider but lacks a release date. Metro Exodus is the next big game to promise ray tracing support. Ray tracing looks great in Battlefield V, but that showcase is the only real use for the feature right now (for western gamers, at least). Lisa Su, said at CES 2019 that the company is “deep in development” of ray tracing hardware but doesn’t want to debut it until “the customer is going to see ” It does not, however, support ray tracing. The Radeon VII supports HDR and up to 8K resolution. I doubt the added consumption matters to most gamers, but it does mean the RTX 2080 can get by with a 6pin+8pin PCI power connection, while the AMD Radeon VII requires dual 8-pin connections. That’s up from Vega 64’s 290 watts, and far more than the RTX 2080 Founder Edition’s 225 watts. AMD thinks that’s an issue as gamers begin to embrace 4K.ĭespite its advanced 7nm production node, the Radeon VII quotes 300 watts of power consumption. The company’s strategy is focused on eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks. Stuffing this much memory into a video card may seem absurd, but AMD considers it essential. These figures leap past the Nvidia RTX 2080 and exceed the RTX 2080 Ti, which quotes 11GB of GDDR6 memory with bandwidth up to 616 gigabytes per second. It also more than doubles the memory bandwidth, which now hits a terabyte per second. That was a lot, but the Radeon VII doubles that to an insane 16GB. AMD debuted its new High Bandwidth Memory with the Vega 64 and 54, adding 8GB to both. The real story, though, is in the memory. That’s down from the 495mm² chip found in the Radeon RX Vega 64 and much smaller than the 545mm² chip in Nvidia’s RTX 2080. That shrinks the Radeon VII’s chip to 331 square millimeters. Nvidia’s cards are built on a 12-nanometer node. ![]() I’ll start first with the first: The Radeon VII is the world’s only 7-nanometer gaming GPU. AMD, meanwhile, is taking a more traditional route, cutting chip size while slamming in gobs of memory. The green team has put its faith in ray tracing. The Radeon VII is an example of the differences in AMD and Nvidia’s strategy. Can it pull off a victory? Riley Young/Digital Trends It’s all about that HBM The Radeon VII is designed to wrestle with Nvidia’s RTX 2080. While the RTX 2080 Founder’s Edition was priced at $799, standard versions of the card start at $699, too.ĪMD’s cards have often undercut Nvidia to excuse mediocre performance, but there’s no apologetic pricing here. The Radeon VII will hit store shelves with an MSRP of $699. ![]() It’s aimed directly at the card in both specifications and price. Fitbit Versa 3ĪMD’s response has arrived, just a few months after the RTX 2080’s September launch. ![]()
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