AMD Radeon VII Recensie | 118 Gegevens vergelijking

The PCMag review highlights the AMD Radeon VII as a high-end 7nm graphics card designed for 4K gaming and professional workstation tasks, featuring a massive 16GB HBM2 memory as a key advantage over competitors. While praised for its design and future-proofing, the card is noted for falling behind the RTX 2080 at lower resolutions and for having high power consumption. Critics pointed to significant cons, including loud fan noise and a higher price tag relative to its predecessor.

The AMD Radeon VII is the first gaming GPU built on TSMC’s leading-edge 7nm process, launching at an MSRP of $699 to challenge Nvidia’s premium dominance in the >$500 market. It is not based on the next-generation Navi architecture; instead, it is a desktop gaming adaptation of the deep-learning-optimized Radeon Instinct MI50, sharing the same 13.2-billion transistor Vega 20 die. Pros include a massive, forward-looking 16GB of HBM2 memory delivering an unprecedented 1TB/s of bandwidth, which provides a 29% performance uptick over the older RX Vega 64. Additionally, its muscular specification delivers a high single-precision compute performance (13,824 GFLOPS) that heavily favors content creators using GPU-accelerated software. However, the card carries several prominent architectural and competitive cons. It is not a fully unlocked Vega 20 chip, as it houses 60 compute units (3,840 shaders) instead of the full 64 units found on the MI60. To differentiate it from enterprise hardware, AMD deliberately cut the Radeon VII's double-precision floating-point rate to 1/4th of its single-precision speed and removed the PCIe 4.0 support present in the MI50. Furthermore, the card requires a...