Radeon VII

[Vish Petrol]

Wasn't there something that was going to be included for the first 100 or 1000 orders?

 

[Gibbo]

Hi, Would you do me a favour and check whether my order went through in time for me to get the card I ordered & get a delivery tomorrow please.

I cannot see orders, give it 1hr then call CS, but around 100 Sapphire orders came down within first five minutes.

 

[harmattan]

From the reviews, performs just under 1080 ti, and runs a bit more power hungry and hotter. General consensus is it's a reasonable option only if you absolutely need 16GB VRAM or can't stand nV. Pretty much as expected.

Mine's incoming for £649

 

[JediFragger]

Christ, much louder than a reference V64!! And 290X!!!

 

[KentMan]

So basically the latest decent card AMD made out of the box was what? 7950 or something?

290 - hot and loud
Fiji - rubbish
Polaris - issues with powerdraw over pcie lane, took a while to get performance up to par
Vega - Overpriced, underperforming, excessive powerdraw, took a while to get performance up to par.

And now this.... we have 25% perf increase over the V64 @ 1440p or 32% @ 4K for another £250 ontop, thats more than 50% of the price for less than 35% performance... And this is on 7nm, AMD are still not able to beat Nvidias last gen stuff, on any meaningful factor (price, performance, power consumption etc).

People will point out that putting 16GB of HBM on was the mistake, yada yada, these are failed Enterprise cards rebadged as gaming cards, the GPU Die with HBM Stack is built like this, and if it fails this is what they have done with them. AMD cant even make GDDR on this package, they'd have to completely redesign the whole GPU package.

I think the evolution of AMD cards had 2 tracks, one was Fiji > Vega > V7 which is the HBM track the other was the 290 > Polaris track where they used GDDR... i dont even think the Fiji > Vega stuff will even work on GDDR without a drastic overhaul, pretty sure that particular track of GPU was designed ground up with HBM in mind. And to be honest this latest iteration confirms my suspicions.

AMD would be better off not even trying to fight the 1080ti / 2080 / 2080ti market, should just aim as high as the 2070 as a max, and try and do it with GDDR only cards, adding HBM just adds more price and really seems to kill performance. Probably another reason NVidia hasnt bothered either.

 

[nashathedog]

I cannot see orders, give it 1hr then call CS, but around 100 Sapphire orders came down within first five minutes.

Okay thanks.

 

[Gibbo]

Christ, much louder than a reference V64!! And 290X!!!

I find that hard to believe, I was stood next to three of them at CES in cases and of course there was ambient noise from other people but I could not hear the cards or systems and they were running some kind of demo.

 

[Thomasck]

Order received - not yet shipped

YES!

Gonna delay the delivery, as I'm in Brazil right now fixing my teeth

YAY, can't wait to go get back to London!

 

[NikTheSHNIK]

Warehouse reaction to the orders coming off the printer they have to pick, pack and ship before cut off!

Press F to pay respects...

 

[JediFragger]

I find that hard to believe, I was stood next to three of them at CES in cases and of course there was ambient noise from other people but I could not hear the cards or systems and they were running some kind of demo.

If it really was 51dB under load (compared to 43) then you really would hear it I think. Is that Delta fan level?

 

[Legion]

Wasn't there something that was going to be included for the first 100 or 1000 orders?

A free lobotomy

 

[Morve]

So about 1440p +28% , 4K +31% over vega 64 (ref) and -9% 1440p and -8% 4k against the RTX 2080

 

[Grimfusion]

D

Does it say that its been prepared for delivery, mine still says Order received - not yet shipped

I phoned to confirm but mine said the same.

 

[Chrisc]

Personally I think it looks and performs alright. i will expect it to be trading blows with a 2080 in the coming months.

 

[Morve]

A free lobotomy

 

[Gibbo]

We've just passed 250 units sold, mostly Sapphire.

 

[Rannoch]

It’s at least some competition to the green team.

 

[Martini1991]

I find that hard to believe, I was stood next to three of them at CES in cases and of course there was ambient noise from other people but I could not hear the cards or systems and they were running some kind of demo.

They could have left it throttling to hell.
A V64 out the box will be "quiet" but it's throttled to hell and back.

 

[delvey]

£100 cheaper and it would have been a game changer
Unfortunately, it is not. Not a bad card still

 

[Thomasck]

We've just passed 250 units sold, mostly Sapphire.

As long as you guys have mine, no problem!

Please please, I ordered from Brazil sick in the bad recovering from a surgery!