Tech preview: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64 - AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 / 64 LE / 64 LCS
The introduction of the VEGA based consumer graphics cards

In this technology preview we'll have a closer look at the now announced AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64. AMD is to release three models for the consumer market, two air-cooled versions and one liquid cooled product. AMD today is announcing their Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64 series graphics cards, there will be two air-cooled models initially, called the Radeon Vega 56 and 64 as well as a Vega 64 liquid cooled edition. As the rumours are now confirmed, the number in the suffixes are based on the actual shader clusters and thus you are looking at two air-cooled graphic cards initially being released, one with 3584 and one with 4096 shader processors.
 

 
Let's get the elephant out of the room right away, the earlier rumors have been wrong about pricing, 399 and 499 USD for the standalone air-cooled versions. There will also be a liquid cooled edition that is clocked faster at a price of 699 USD, which does come with a bundle. The three cards are due for release and availability in August. You can purchase the cards separately, yet AMD is also going to offer bundles that will give your discounts (CPU/Game bundle/ monitor discount) in packages.
 

Say hi to the Vega 10 Die - to your left you can see the two 4GB HBM2 stacks

We'll talk about the specific specifications in a tidbit, but an interesting fact: with proper cooling according to AMD Vega10 can reach 1.7 GHz or higher. We’ll have to wait and see how that works out for the AIB custom air-cooled versions liquid cooled versions of course. Later in the month on a liquid cooled version will be released, at a price of 699 USD. But let's have a look at specifications. Some specs in the charts are not yet final as AMD has not shared everything just yet. But with a bit of math you can reverse spec a lot of stuff.
 

AMD Radeon	RX Vega 64 LCS	RX Vega 64 LE	RX Vega 56	RX 580	RX 570	RX 560
Graphics Core	Vega 10	Vega 10	Vega 10	Polaris 20 XTX	Polaris 20 Pro	Polaris
Fabrication Process	14 nm FinFET	14 nm FinFET	14 nm FinFET	14 nm FinFET	14 nm FinFET	14 nm FinFET
Single Precision fp32	13.7 TFLOPs	12.66 TFLOPs	10.5 TFLOPs	6.1 TFLOPs	5.1 TFLOPs	~2 TFLOPs
Memory	8GB HBM2	8GB HBM2	8 GB HBM2	4/8 GB GDDR5	4/8 GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Clock Frequency  Base / Boost	1,406 MHz 1,677 MHz	1,247 MHz 1,546 MHz	1,156 MHz 1,471 MHz	1,257 MHz 1,340 MHz	1,168 MHz 1,244 MHz	1,175 MHz 1,275
Compute Units	64	64	56	36	32	14
Shader Processors	4096	4096	3584	2304	2048	1024
Memory Interface	2048-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit
ROPs	64	64	64	32	32	16
TMUs	256	256	224	144	128	56
Memory Speed Effective	945 MHz 1890 Gbp	945 MHz 1890 Gbps	775 MHz 1550 Gbps*	8 Gbps	7 Gbps	7 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	484 GB/s	484 GB/s	410 GB/s	256 GB/s	211 GB/s	112 GB/s
Board power	435 W	295 W	210 W	185 W	150 W	75 W
MSRP	600 USD	499 USD	399 USD	$199 (4 GB) $229 (8 GB)	$149 (4 GB) $179 (8 GB)	$99 (2 GB) $119 (4

The new RX Vega cards will be available in August, AMD did not mention a hard date for launch availability. AIB cards will follow in Q3. Next page please where we'll have a look at the more specifications and tech details.