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Radeon VII

shankly1985 said:
Case in point is the matter of FP64 performance. As we noted in our look at the Vega 20 GPU, Vega 20’s FP64 performance is very fast: it’s one-half the FP32 rate, or 6.9 TFLOPS. This is one of the premium features of Vega 20, and since Radeon VII was first announced back at CES, the company has been struggling a bit to decide how much of that performance to actually make available to the Radeon VII. At the time of its announcement, we were told that the Radeon VII would have unrestricted (1/2) FP64 performance, only to later be told that it would be 1/8. Now, with the actual launch of the card upon us, AMD has made their decision: they’ve split it down the middle and are doing a 1/4 rate.

The Radeon VII graphics card was created for gamers and creators, enthusiasts and early adopters. Given the broader market Radeon VII is targeting, we were considering different levels of FP64 performance. We previously communicated that Radeon VII provides 0.88 TFLOPS (DP=1/16 SP). However based on customer interest and feedback we wanted to let you know that we have decided to increase double precision compute performance to 3.52 TFLOPS (DP=1/4SP).

If you looked at FP64 performance in your testing, you may have seen this performance increase as the VBIOS and press drivers we shared with reviewers were pre-release test drivers that had these values already set. In addition, we have updated other numbers to reflect the achievable peak frequency in calculating Radeon VII performance as noted in the [charts].

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13923/the-amd-radeon-vii-review/3
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Pretty much confirms exactly what I said earlier in this thread. Compute is restricted in the bios so basically somebody will flash these to mi50 for sure.
 
ShiWarrior said:
shame the shop (AMD web shop) hasent got any for sale yet still
maybe its via OCUK, , so who ever gets the first 10, will have one ? :D
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Nope, they sold at least 10. Assuming it's AMD USA site only. Twitter feed said "Thanks for all of the excitement in the community around @Radeon VII. We are very proud of the newest member of our family!!! For the first ten fans who bought @Radeon VII direct from our website this morning… there’s a little something extra in the box. Check it out!

I'm expecting Jenson to beat it when next gen released with a leather jacket, used.
 
For people saying 'wait for drivers bruh, massive improvements comin' ya' you do realise that 7 is just a shrunken Vega right? No architectural improvements, just the same stuff we've seen on the previous one. There isn't a great deal left in the tank I don't think (bar a couple of surprises no doubt).
 
I dont think that the V7 is just a shrunken vega, the very fact that the usual OC tools and utils are struggling with it is proof.

This thing will be worth taking a look at in a month or two, AMD have done it again, rushed out a decent product with shonky software which will take a month or two before it really shows its proper performance.
 
Performance seems to be pretty fair/decent enough though the temps and noise are through the roof. A more mature driver should tame things a good amount.
 
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