![]() We reached out to AMD’s Director of Product Marketing Sasa Marinkovic to inquire whether or not the FP64 inclusion was real, and were told quite simply that “Radeon VII does not have double precision enabled.” That means instead of delivering 6.7 TFLOPS of FP64 like the MI50, Radeon VII will be closer to ~862 GFLOPS (it’s 1:16 with single-precision like RX Vega). Well, it was either that, or the depressing Indianapolis Colts divisional playoff game. Pokdepinion: I may have said that the GeForce RTX cards aren’t worth getting, but in the face of the competition, maybe you should get the GeForce RTX cards.Sitting in an airport lounge last night on my journey home from CES, I almost jumped out of my chair when I found a reddit thread claiming that the card did in fact support FP64. AMD does try to make the Radeon VII easier to swallow with three free games, but NVIDIA’s deal of two AAA titles cannot be easily ignored either. My favorite argument when pitting AMD vs NVIDIA is FreeSync, but with G-SYNC Compatible, that point is now moot. ![]() But if not, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 is the way to go if you have $699 (~RM2844) to spend on a graphics card.ĪMD doesn’t have the RT cores nor the Tensor cores for the next generation of gaming, and even when putting all those aside, the Radeon VII’s performance in games just isn’t impressive enough. If you are a researcher-by-day, gamer-by-night who might make use of all that compute prowess, then maybe. The AMD Radeon VII is a huge leap forward, but it still isn’t worth the moolah you will have to foot out for its unprecedented compute performance and humongous amount of HBM2 VRAM, if all you are going to do is game on it. It appears that we will still have to wait longer for AMD to release a proper high-end gaming card. ![]() This was apparently quite a last minute change, as AMD was planning on releasing the card with just 0.88 TFOPS of FP64 compute, or 1/16th of its single precision performance. Pit that against the pricier GeForce RTX 2080 Ti’s pitiable 0.4 TFLOPS, or 1/32 FP64 performance, and you will realize that AMD probably didn’t design the Vega 20 GPU for gaming applications. ![]() It delivers higher compute across the board, but the kicker is in the double precision (FP64) performance, where it promises 3.46 TFLOPS, 1/4th of its single precision performance. The main draw of the AMD Radeon VII is probably the impressive compute performance. ![]()
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