5/18/2023 0 Comments 7nm radeon vii graphics card fp64For almost a quarter-century, I worked on the seminal, gigantic Computer Shopper magazine (and later, its digital counterpart), aka the phone book for PC buyers, and the nemesis of every postal delivery person. I have been a technology journalist for almost 30 years and have covered just about every kind of computer gear-from the 386SX to 64-core processors-in my long tenure as an editor, a writer, and an advice columnist. Indeed, for AMD it's the company's only player in the all-out 4K space the existing Radeon RX Vega 64, at $400 to $500, is meant to compete more with the $349 GeForce RTX 2060s that just decloaked this week and the existing GeForce RTX 2070s. Whether frame rates will turn this into a single or a triple, we'll have to see in testing. Lying between the 1440p-gaming-ideal GeForce RTX 2070 cards at around $500 and below the 4K-capable RTX 2080 cards at around $800, the Radeon VII hits one into the gap between two of Nvidia's high-end cards. This card will be landing in an interesting spot in the market. (Samples of the RTX 2060 we have seen at CES, in contrast, have been all over the map in terms of design, length, and look.) Card partners will be adhering closely to the design of this reference board at launch, as opposed to innovating on wild cooling variants. In our briefing, AMD noted that this card will be both a reference design (that is, a board sample that its card-making partners will mimic in their own branded cards) and will be sold direct from AMD for $699 as an end-user product. The triple-fan design of the Radeon VII is a good indication that this card will be a powerful, hard-running beastie.
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