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AMD Radeon VII, 7nm GPU for High End Gaming and Content Creation, Launched in India at Rs. 54,990

AMD Radeon VII, 7nm GPU for High-End Gaming and Content Creation, Launched in India at Rs. 54,990 4eb1j

By Jamshed Avari | Updated: 7 February 2019 19:31 IST

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AMD Radeon VII, 7nm GPU for High-End Gaming and Content Creation, Launched in India at Rs. 54,990

Highlights

AMD Radeon VII graphics cards will have 16GB of HBM2 RAM
Partners will all sell reference cards with the same triple-fan cooler
Rumours suggest that worldwide availability will be extremely limited

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AMD has launched its new flagship GPU, the Radeon VII, around the world. First announced as a surprise at AMD CEO Lisa Su's CES 2019 keynote, the Radeon VII is billed as the world's first 7nm consumer GPU and supersedes the Radeon Vega 64 at the top of the company's Radeon GPU lineup. AMD is targeting this release not only at enthusiasts and gamers, but also at creative professionals in the VR, game, and video industries. The company promises exceptional performance for gaming at 4K, ultrawide 1440p, or 1080p with HDR. Performance in games is said to be up to 29 percent better than that of the Radeon Vega 64 on average. 6y2f6x

Graphics cards based on the AMD's own reference design, which features a triple-fan cooler for the first time. Manufacturers have not announced whether or when they might introduce custom designs of their own.

The AMD Radeon VII GPU has 3,840 execution units, which the company calls stream processors. It is clocked at 1400MHz with a maximum boost speed of 1750MHz. Total graphics performance bandwidth is rated at 13.8 Teraflops. The GPU is manufactured on AMD's 7nm process, and uses a refreshed version of the Radeon Vega 56 and Radeon Vega 64 GPUs.

AMD boasts of a whopping 16GB of high-bandwidth 3D-stacked HBM2 memory which is integrated onto the GPU die and is connected using a 4,096-bit bus for a total memory bandwidth of 1TBps. This is double the memory and 2.1X the memory bandwidth of the Radeon Vega 64.

According to AMD, several current-day games including Far Cry 5, COD: Black Ops 4, and Metro: Exodus can exceed 8GB of memory usage when played at 4K using the highest settings, and productivity applications can also do the same, such as Adobe Premiere when editing 4K or 8K video.

Power consumption is rated at 300W. The Radeon VII s all of AMD's software features including FreeSync 2, Radeon Chill, performance tweaking with Radeon WattMan, and video stream capturing with Radeon ReLive.

The Radeon VII will go up against CES, calling it "underwhelming" and "lousy".

announcement at CES. It was first reported that there will not be any custom-designed cards at all from AMD's partners, and that the total production run would be just 5,000 units. Lending some credence to that, fresh rumours in the days preceding the launch suggest that only 100 Radeon VII cards will be sold in the UK and just 20 each will be sold in and Spain. AMD is reportedly also still preparing its next-gen Navi architecture for release later in 2019.

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