AMD Radeon VII Announcement and Discussion

[3dilettante]

Thanks for the update Ryan. Still boggles the mind that RTG's communication is so lackluster.

At least for FP64, a GCN product can readily adjust the rate from the silicon's physical rate to as low as 1/16 after manufacturing. It's possible there was some late-stage wavering on the specific rate as various parties argued for one direction or another. The messaging could reflect the unsettled internal debates.

Possibly it was settled with bare-knuckle boxing, depending on how beat up did some of the sources looked.

 

[ffding]

hello folks, reading least 2 posts from web saying Radeon 7 do not support crossfire, is that true?!

do not understand why AMD doing this, since i am a dual Vega64 owner.

there is no point of upgrade since some title scaling CF quiet good. a single Radeon 7 only offer 25% performance boost?

if i understand correctly Instinct MIx0 was designed for data center with 1TB/s memory bandwidth. How gaming or desktop app drain that from Radeon 7?

 

[BoMbY]

Probably just the usual fear-mongering.

 

[sonen]

Alright, I finally have the Radeon VII FP64 performance matter sorted out with AMD.

Contrary to earlier statements, it is being throttled. Radeon VII's rate will be 1:8, versus Vega 20's native 1:2 rate. So if you want the max rate, you're still going to have to buy MI50/MI60 or whatever Radeon Pro card they eventually come out with.

It is notable though that 1:8 is still twice the native FP64 rate of all other Vegas. So it'll still be a lot faster at FP64 operations than Vega 56/Vega 64.

Not a bad decision imho. Will make FP64 usable, but nowhere near enough to cannibalize Pro cards.
And as a bonus reviewers can throw in 1 or 2 benchmarks showcasing this advantage vs the competition

$699 for 16GB of HBM2 tells me AMD might need a trick or two.

 

[BoMbY]

Btw. XFX lists Crossfire as supported feature:

http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/produ...on-vii-16gb-3xdp-hdmi-triple-fan-rx-vegma3fd6

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Do they usually have a 2 year warranty on GPU's?

 

[Kaotik]

Btw. XFX lists Crossfire as supported feature:

http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/produ...on-vii-16gb-3xdp-hdmi-triple-fan-rx-vegma3fd6

Why wouldn't they? Nothing prevents VII from doing Multi-GPU over PCIe just like all the other Radeons, it doesn't mean it would use IF-link between cards

 

[ffding]

Btw. XFX lists Crossfire as supported feature:

http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/produ...on-vii-16gb-3xdp-hdmi-triple-fan-rx-vegma3fd6

got 404 of the link

 

[Kaotik]

got 404 of the link

Works fine here

 

[Malo]

Works fine here

It didn't a couple of hours ago.

 

[CarstenS]

It didn't a couple of hours ago.

For me neither.

Works fine here

Still in browser cache maybe? Or geo locked?

edit: Anyhow, I don't think AMD would remove crossfire from RVII for those who are willing to use it.

 

[ffding]

For me neither.


Still in browser cache maybe? Or geo locked?

edit: Anyhow, I don't think AMD would remove crossfire from RVII for those who are willing to use it.

could check sapphiretech.com CF was not listed as Feature yet.

 

[Kaotik]

could check sapphiretech.com CF was not listed as Feature yet.

That page is clearly incomplete in terms of features, they're lacking Eyefinity and VSR too, which were listed with Vega, for example

 

[ffding]

That page is clearly incomplete in terms of features, they're lacking Eyefinity and VSR too, which were listed with Vega, for example

hopefully

 

[BRiT]

Yet another Sony Engineering Best cleanup thread: https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/meme-sony-engineering-better-than-everyone-else-cleanup.61065/

 

[ffding]

hopefully

https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1548302770#spe

 

[Ike Turner]

https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1548302770#spe

Embrace content creation - even in 8K resolutions, VR and beyond - that’s so quick and responsive it’s practically clairvoyant.

EDIT: This ridiculous sentence apparently isn't some lost in translation stuff but must originate from AMD's marketing team given that it shows up on all AIB product pages (AsRock's Radeon VII) ..

 

[ffding]

EDIT: This ridiculous sentence apparently isn't some lost in translation stuff but must originate from AMD's marketing team given that it shows up on all AIB product pages (AsRock's Radeon VII) ..

CF column is leaving in blank i hope it is TBC

 

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[w0lfram]

Here an unboxing and interview with AMD.