Finally, AMD is actually on par with NVIDIA again
It’s no secret that NVIDIA has been winning the graphics game easily these days. AMD’s Radeon video cards just can’t compete with the green team’s top-end offerings, and the chipmaker has been content to simply fill in the void left by their dominating rival. That’s about to change: AMD has announced Radeon VII, their next-generation graphics card, and things are about to heat up in the graphics space.
The Radeon VII uses second-generation Vega architecture that offers 25 more performance using the same amount of power of previous Vega graphics and has enough power under the hood to run modern games like Battlefield V and Far Cry 5 in max settings and 4K at 60 FPS and higher.
As for the nitty gritty of the hardware, the Radeon VII has 60 compute units/3840 stream processors running at up to 1.8GHz and 16GB of ultra-fast HBM2 memory (second-generation High-Bandwidth Memory), along with 1 TB/s memory bandwidth and a 4,096-bit memory interface.
AMD is sweetening the deal by bundling the Radeon VII with three games when it’s offered at launch: Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5 and Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. These three games come with every Radeon VII card, as well as any pre-built machine that uses the card.
As for price, the Radeon VII is expected to be priced at $699, or around Php 36.4K before taxes and duties when it goes on sale on Feb. 7. That’s the same SRP of NVIDIA’s RTX 2080 graphics card.
