With the next generation of Nvidia RTX cards almost fully established, AMD’s Radeon 7 has a lot to prove. It’s neither one of AMD’s own next-gen Navi GPUs, nor does it have any special reflection/performance boosting tech hidden away inside its second gen Vega architecture. There are improvements to be found over AMD’s existing Vega 56 and Vega 64 cards, sure, but I think you’ll probably agree that a reduction in latency times and improved memory bandwidth isn’t nearly as sexy as ‘Hey, look at these crazy frame rate boosts’, or, ‘Hot damn, doesn’t this light look amazing?’
It may be the world’s first consumer graphics card to use a 7nm (nanometer) manufacturing process, but it is, in almost every sense, a very workmanlike graphics card. It’s got buckets of power at its disposal thanks to its ludicrous 16GB of HBM2 memory (which is twice that of the Vega 64), 3840 stream processors and 1TB/s memory bandwidth, but on the surface I’d argue there isn’t really a huge amount to get excited about. Until, that is, you realise you can get almost RTX 2080 levels of speed for around £40-100 less. Almost.
Source : rockpapershotgun.com
