AMD has revealed the first official benchmark for its new graphics card, the AMD RX Vega 64.
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I had a feeling they were going to be beastly and competition is definitely good. I'll be sticking with my GTX 980 TI for the foreseeable future though it's still more than overkill for me.
What a beast
Very underwhelming and disappointed.
A $600/700, power hungry, water cooled/air cooled Vega has about = performance to a $514 aftermarket GTX 1080.
Anandtech - "what we’ve been told is to expect the Vega 64 to “trade blows” with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080."
Techpowerup - AMD provided some internal performance numbers from their own testing, so as always take these with a grain of salt. These tests were done on an Intel Core i7-7700K at 4.2 GHz, 16 GB of DDR4-3000 MHz RAM and with the latest available drivers for the AMD and NVIDIA GPUs at the time. Refer to the complete slide deck at the end for full testing information, but there was nothing that caught our eye otherwise. The chosen games were all running on DX12 or Vulkan APIs, and the order of the four GPUs being presented is certainly on purpose but looking purely at the numbers and no more it appears that RX Vega 64 trades blows with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 at stock settings under WQHD (21:9, 1440p)
Hardwarecanucks - There is certainly something you can infer about this situation though; somewhere NVIDIA’s designs skipped a full generation (or more) ahead of AMD. Like the Fiji architecture was obviously meant to compete against Maxwell GPUs only to be released a year later, Vega’s target was Pascal. The only problem is that Pascal has been gracing the GeForce lineup for a long while whereas Radeon users are only getting their first taste of that performance level now. Regardless of how you look at things, AMD is playing catch up and their launch cadence is dropping further behind.
Nvidia must be having a celebration after this benches!Then Volta will kill AMD for good at the end of this year.
Clap, Clap, Clap.... They always showcase DOOM since its the only better optimized game on AMD hardware.