AMD Radeon VII graphics card launched at Rs 54,990

By Mithun Mohandas | Updated on 03-Jun-2020

03-Jun-2020

HIGHLIGHTS

The Radeon VII is set to compete against the NVIDIA RTX 2080

Announced at the CES 2019 AMD keynote, the AMD Radeon VII graphics card has officially been launched worldwide. The new graphics card is aimed to compete against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 but is priced $100 lesser than the RTX 2080. The Indian pricing for the AMD Radeon VII stands at Rs.54,990. This is not powered by a Navi GPU but an improved version of the Vega GPU, the Vega 20. As with most high-end graphics cards selling at the moment, even the AMD Radeon VII will be bundled with three AAA-video games which as of now include Resident Evil 2 (2019 Remastered), Devil May Cry 5 and The Division 2. We’d like to point out that two of these games have not yet been launched and will be out by the second week of March 2019.

AMD Radeon VII Specifications

The Radeon VII would be the third HBM2 card from AMD if you don’t count the liquid cooled variant of the Vega 64. From the specifications, the Radeon VII seems suspiciously similar to the Radeon Instinct MI50 which also has 16 GB of HBM2 memory, same number of Compute Units and is rated at the same TDP. Even the Peak Single Precision performance is slightly higher than that of the Instinct MI50, this can be attributed to the improved clock speeds of the Radeon VII.

AMD Radeon VII Specifications
	Radeon VII	Radeon RX Vega 64	Radeon RX Vega 56	Radeon RX 590
Stream Processors	3840 (60 CUs)	4096 (64 CUs)	3584 (56 CUs)	2304 (36 CUs)
ROPs	64	64	64	32
Base Clock	1400 MHz	1247 MHz	1156 MHz	1469 MHz
Boost Clock	1800 MHz	1546 MHz	1471 MHz	1545 MHz
Memory Clock	2.0 Gbps	1.89 Gbps	1.6 Gbps	8 Gbps
Memory Type	HBM2	HBM2	HBM2	GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	4096-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit	256-bit
VRAM	16 GB	8 GB	8 GB	8 GB
Single Precision Perf.	14.2 TFLOPS	12.7 TFLOPS	10.5 TFLOPS	7.1 TFLOPS
Board Power	300 W	295 W	210 W	225 W
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 7nm	GloFo 14nm	GloFo 14nm	GloFo/Samsung 12nm
GPU	Vega 20	Vega 10	Vega 10	Polaris 30
Architecture	Vega (GCN 5)	Vega (GCN 5)	Vega (GCN 5)	Polaris (GCN 4)
Transistor Count	13.2B	12.5B	12.5B	5.7B
Launch Date	02/07/2019	08/14/2017	08/14/2017	11/15/2018
Launch Price (USD)	$699	$499	$399	$279
Launch Price (INR)	54990	39990	33990	26900

However, the additional memory is the highlight of the Radeon VII. The Radeon VII has twice the memory buffer than the Vega 64 which begs the question – Why double the buffer now? This would be under the assumption that the Radeon VII is a new graphics card and not the Instinct MI50 in a new avatar. Most of the marketing material points to the peak usage in media creation and 4K game play. Hopefully, we'll be able to verify the same once we get the card.

Radeon VII India Price

The AMD Radeon VII is priced at Rs.54,990 in India. There have been a few reports citing low stocks for the new GPU in the European markets. We have no word about the same in India.

Mithun Mohandas

Mithun Mohandas is an Indian technology journalist with 10 years of experience covering consumer technology. He is currently employed at Digit in the capacity of a Managing Editor. Mithun has a background in Computer Engineering and was an active member of the IEEE during his college days. He has a penchant for digging deep into unravelling what makes a device tick. If there's a transistor in it, Mithun's probably going to rip it apart till he finds it. At Digit, he covers processors, graphics cards, storage media, displays and networking devices aside from anything developer related. As an avid PC gamer, he prefers RTS and FPS titles, and can be quite competitive in a race to the finish line. He only gets consoles for the exclusives. He can be seen playing Valorant, World of Tanks, HITMAN and the occasional Age of Empires or being the voice behind hundreds of Digit videos. View Full Profile