AMD Unveils 7nm Radeon VII GPU as Response to NVIDIA's RTX 2080

AMD's CEO Lisa Su unveiled the AMD Radeon VII GPU on the CES 2019 stage, the company's new graphics chip built using the enhanced second-generation Vega architecture and a 7nm process technology.

The Radeon VII is designed to offer a proper response to NVIDIA's RTX 2080 which, until now, did not have a competitor on the graphics card market.

According to AMD's press release, the Radeon VII bundles "60 compute units/3840 stream processors running at up to 1.8GHz and 16GB of ultra-fast HBM2 memory (second-generation High-Bandwidth Memory)."

Designed to offer high FPS while gaming in 1440p

Furthermore, the new AMD GPU also features a 4,096-bit memory interface and 1 TB/s memory bandwidth, the perfect combination to provide users with hyper-realistic looking content and ultra-high resolution textures.

AMD also stated that the Radeon VII would offer increased 3D performance, with 27% more in Blender and DaVinci Resolve, as well as up to 62% better results in the OpenCL LuxMark compute benchmark when compared to the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card.

Increased 3D and gaming performance

The Radeon VII comes with support for the DirectX 12 and Vulkan 3D APIs, allowing for better gaming performance ranging from 25 up to 42 percent improvements depending on the game, also when compared to the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 GPU.

AMD will also offer customers who buy an eligible AMD Radeon VII video card or a Radeon VII-powered computer the Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5 and Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 games, as part of its "Raise the Game Fully Loaded" bundle.

As disclosed by AMD, the Radeon VII graphics card will be available beginning February 7, with a price tag of $699. Furthermore, a number of leading add-in-board AMD partners are also planning to offer the cards following the GPU's official release.