AMD announces Radeon VII, 7nm graphics card with 3840 stream processors, claims to beats RTX 2080

Updated on 03-Jun-2020
HIGHLIGHTS

The AMD Radeon VII has 60 compute units and 16 GB of HBM2 memory and will be available on Feb 7, 2019 and priced at $699.

At the AMD CES 2019 key note held at the Sands Expo, Venetian, which was also AMD's first ever CES keynote, the CEO and President, Dr. Lisa Su announced the AMD Radeon VII, the latest and greatest graphics card to join the Radeon family. The AMD Radeon VII will have 60 compute units which means there are 3840 shaders in total. Moreover, AMD is not compromising on the memory because the AMD Radeon VII sports a whopping 16 GB of HBM2 memory. The Radeon VII will be available for sale on February 7th 2019. We have no pricing details as of now. AMD's previous flagship, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 had 4096 shaders and 8 GB of HBM2 memory. Radeon VII will be available from AMD's own website, all major retailers and OEMs.

AMD Radeon VII Graphics Card

At the keynote session, the AMD Radeon VII was demonstrated with Capcom's upcoming Devil May Cry 5 video game. The demo had a small battle scene running at 4K resolution and clocked in around 90-115 FPS. Another thing that was revealed at the keynote was that AMD had partnered with Google for Project Stream. The upcoming streaming service from Google is reportedly running AMD's Radeon GPUs.

AMD Radeon VII Pricing and availabiliy

AMD said that the Radeon VII graphics card beats the RTX 2080 in performance and will be priced at $699. The graphics card will be available for sale on AMD's website and from all major retailers from February 7, 2019 onwards.

Mithun Mohandas

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