AMD has announced its second-generation Vega graphics card, the Radeon 7. This is the first 7nm graphics card on the market, and the long-awaited answer to Nvidia’s high-end 10-series and 20-series cards.
Compared to AMD’s previous top card, the Vega 64, the Radeon 7 should offer between 25 to 40 per cent higher frame-rates at 4K resolution and max settings. Generally, AMD is promising that the Radeon 7 will offer slightly better frame-rates than the RTX 2080 in DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 titles, and significantly higher performance for games that support Vulkan.
Radeon 7 graphics cards should also incorporate a staggering amount of memory – the model shown on stage includes 16GB of HBM2 memory with 1TB per second of memory bandwidth. In comparison, the RTX 2080 sports just 8GB of GDDR6 memory and bandwidth of 448GB/s, while Nvidia’s top-end RTX 2080 Ti moves up to 11GB with bandwidth of 616GB/s.
Source: Eurogamer AMD announces Radeon 7 graphics card with 16GB VRAM at CES 2019