ASRock Radeon VII Photo Leaks - It's Reference Based

N7JFG

2019-01-23 17:22

I hope it comes soon. I'm about to drop on a new GPU, and I'm waiting on the Radeon VII review to see if it could be worth it.

#5630689

HardwareCaps

2019-01-23 17:23

Prob slightly weaker than the 2080 on avg.

#5630706

tunejunky

2019-01-23 17:59

HardwareCaps:

Prob slightly weaker than the 2080 on avg.

for $150 less money with 100% compatibility with Freesync I & II (HDR). variable refresh does work with freesync monitors, i've played my laptop's gtx1070 on my freesync office monitor...but there are levels to the compatibility and HDR is not one of them. you will only get HDR for g-sync on g-sync II (or deluxe) monitors. furthermore, LFC is limited for the lower range of fps on freesync with nvidia cards.

#5630709

-Tj-

2019-01-23 18:05

I will get one from Asus in the shop on 7th as well, curious about its price though 😀

#5630717

999Anticlock9wiSe

2019-01-23 18:21

I dont see the point of this GPU. The vega 64 stock reference is already faster than the 1080 stock reference so what is the point in replacing that card with this one. Power is no different and the architecture is the same, If they just used their heads and dropped the clocks 10% to slash the power usage in half they would only need a single 8 pin. But noooo this is AMD' they enjoy alienating everyone with insane power usage for single percentage performance gains. Just constant face palming

#5630721

-Tj-

2019-01-23 18:30

999Anticlock9wiSe:

I dont see the point of this GPU. The vega 64 stock reference is already faster than the 1080 stock reference so what is the point in replacing that card with this one. Power is no different and the architecture is the same, If they just used their heads and dropped the clocks 10% to slash the power usage in half they would only need a single 8 pin. But noooo this is AMD' they enjoy alienating everyone with insane power usage for single percentage performance gains. Just constant face palming

vega64 is stock 1080 vegaVII is stock 2080 not so much of a faceplam to me.

#5630727

HWgeek

2019-01-23 18:45

http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=97FA4A9F-D64C-45E6-A0C4-B8911A7EE2B3&lang=eng http://us.dl.sapphiretech.com/archive/gm/PDimg/Sapphire_201921155838.jpg

#5630728

Kaarme

2019-01-23 18:48

999Anticlock9wiSe:

I dont see the point of this GPU. The vega 64 stock reference is already faster than the 1080 stock reference so what is the point in replacing that card with this one. Power is no different and the architecture is the same, If they just used their heads and dropped the clocks 10% to slash the power usage in half they would only need a single 8 pin. But noooo this is AMD' they enjoy alienating everyone with insane power usage for single percentage performance gains. Just constant face palming

Do you live in a country with serious power shortages, or something? Government is pressuring the citizens to only use x kWh per month?

#5630731

KBDE

2019-01-23 18:50

HDMI 2.0b ugh.. i was hoping, no expecting 2.1.

#5630734

riot83

2019-01-23 18:54

tunejunky:

for $150 less money with 100% compatibility with Freesync I & II (HDR). variable refresh does work with freesync monitors, i've played my laptop's gtx1070 on my freesync office monitor...but there are levels to the compatibility and HDR is not one of them. you will only get HDR for g-sync on g-sync II (or deluxe) monitors. furthermore, LFC is limited for the lower range of fps on freesync with nvidia cards.

Well my Samsung C27HG70 can have both VRR and HDR enabled on it with an nVidia card with no troubles @1440p 144hz. FarCry 5 works perfect with HDR and VRR. All I had to do was turn on FreeSync Ultimate/2 in the monitor.

#5630740

GSDragoon

2019-01-23 19:09

So just get one direct from AMD then?

#5630742

Maddness

2019-01-23 19:15

riot83:

Well my Samsung C27HG70 can have both VRR and HDR enabled on it with an nVidia card with no troubles @1440p 144hz. FarCry 5 works perfect with HDR and VRR. All I had to do was turn on FreeSync Ultimate/2 in the monitor.

Yes that's really cool. I'm seriously considering getting this monitor as well. The fact you can do VRR and HDR on both AMD and Nvidia makes this a very good buy at this price.

#5630748

Undying

2019-01-23 19:26

-Tj-:

I will get one from Asus in the shop on 7th as well, curious about its price though 😀

Are you really coming to the red side after all this time? :P

#5630760

-Tj-

2019-01-23 19:54

Undying:

Are you really coming to the red side after all this time? 😛

I mean in the shop where I work 🙂 Today Asus Croatia distributors showed up and said to my staff if we want one, exclusive etc, only 2 will be available from them atm,. So one will go to our shop, the other one will go to one of your PC shops in Serbia 🙂

#5630761

Undying

2019-01-23 19:56

-Tj-:

I mean in the shop where I work 🙂 Today Asus Croatia distributors showed up and said to my staff if we want one, exclusive etc, only 2 will be available from them atm,. So one will go to our shop, only one in whole country, the other one will go to one of your PC shops in Serbia 🙂

Hah, that one is probably already sold. Still, we can order it from Hungary. Anyway i know you said you'll upgrade soon so i thought this is it. :P

#5630765

-Tj-

2019-01-23 19:58

Undying:

Hah, that one is probably already sold. Still, we can order it from Hungary. Anyway i know you said you'll upgrade soon so i thought this is it. 😛

Yeah would be nice for a change xD Will see, but locally it will be expensive for sure.

#5630771

waltc3

2019-01-23 20:09

I will be surprised if this is the only gaming GPU AMD releases this year based on 7nm VII tech. I would expect to see a very fast gaming variant close to the ~$300 sweet spot by3rd/4th calendar Q at the latest--with 8GBs, etc. (Mid-range discrete cards usually outsell the high-end cards by a considerable margin, etc.) I've been running W3 lately (again) @ 3840x2160 X-fire and according to the R overlay software I never consume more than 4GBs of Vram no matter what I want to pile on in terms of eye-candy. I get similar Vram usage numbers for the software running Shadow of the Tomb Raider, as well. But--this is just a guess, of course... But for professional/semi-professional use, 16GB could conceivably be used when multitasking a number of high-end rendering and compilation programs. Should be an interesting year! (Not the least for the next Ryzen cpus, as well!)

#5630772

Exodite

2019-01-23 20:13

I'm quite curious to see how the cooler performs, it looks like a serious upgrade over AMDs traditional stock coolers. Not that that's much of an achievement in and of itself.. 😛 Also interested to know who designed it, if we'll ever know.

#5630775

Embra

2019-01-23 20:18

Exodite:

I'm quite curious to see how the cooler performs, it looks like a serious upgrade over AMDs traditional stock coolers. Not that that's much of an achievement in and of itself.. 😛 Also interested to know who designed it, if we'll ever know.

We may never know, but I would not be surprised if Sapphire had something to do with .

#5630778

Exodite

2019-01-23 20:21

waltc3:

I will be surprised if this is the only gaming GPU AMD releases this year based on 7nm VII tech.

Hmm, I don't know about that... assuming the multitude of Navi rumors floating about is anywhere close to true that architecture should handily cover all bases below the Radeon 7. As a newer architecture fully designed for 7nm I'd wager the margins on a ~ RTX 2070-performing Navi part should be better than a further-cut-down Vega 20 part as well. Just saying my expectation would be the opposite, unless AMD is ordering a huge number of parts for the MI60/MI50, it wouldn't make much sense to see further Vega 20-based gaming GPUs with the current Navi roadmap.

Embra:

We may never know, but I would not be surprised if Sapphire had something to do with .

That's my thinking also. As I understand it they've designed boards for AMD before and the fans especially look very Sapphire-y. Which is a good thing for sure, I've always been greatly impressed with Sapphire's cards.