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Radeon VII

Illuminist said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9I_RBzo1s4

Here you go fellas this is as close as I could find to seeing a Radeon 7 in action

It's masked as a 3 monitor setup video BUT he is running everything on that video on the new card. You get to see Battlefield 1 (corrected) and Dirt 3 running on the card on triple monitor and it looks smooth as hell.

5:35 you see the card is in there

And skip to the end to see the games running on it
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That's not the new card it's the old limited edition Vega,

Too late sorry.
 
nashathedog said:
Towards the end he points out how the heatsink is too enclosed,I took stick for saying the same thing yesterday, It's the same thing the Turing reference card as well. It's like they're ignoring what's been learned over the last few years and designed a card where aesthetics hve taken priority rather than performance.
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If you look at the 2 finstacks side by side the Radeon 7 isn't quite as dense and has more room between the fins for better airflow. The Turing cards are all densely packed in.

Pic of the Turing heatsink.
https://www.google.com/search?q=208...oECAEQJw&biw=412&bih=718#imgrc=iM_NCilTlh37iM

Compare that to the teardown vids and there's an obvious difference in terms of spacing.
 
I don't think the Vega V11 has the GPU tach LED's by the power connectors either, whereas the card in the video does have them.

Also Radeon settings picks the card up as a RX Vega.
rxVega.jpg
 
Gerard said:
If you look at the 2 finstacks side by side the Radeon 7 isn't quite as dense and has more room between the fins for better airflow. The Turing cards are all densely packed in.

Pic of the Turing heatsink.
https://www.google.com/search?q=208...oECAEQJw&biw=412&bih=718#imgrc=iM_NCilTlh37iM

Compare that to the teardown vids and there's an obvious difference in terms of spacing.
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Good point, It may be perfectly fine once it's undervolted a bit, If it isn't I'm sure it won't be too long until an AIO fitting appears so I may go down that route. I almost grabbed an Alphacool Eisworlf for my Vega LE but I ended up selling it & grabbing a non reference model instead.
 
nashathedog said:
Towards the end he points out how enclosed the heatsink is, I took stick for saying the same thing yesterday, It was exacxtly the same with the Turing reference cards. It's like they've ignored what's been learned over the last few years and designed reference cards where aesthetics have taken priority rather than thermals and noise, I mean look how hollowed out the heatsink, They've had to give sides to it and the sides are struggling for room to let the airflow out, one side struggles because they shrunk the area down for the Radeon sign and the other side will be bouncing it back at the card off the motherboard. It's gonna be interesting to see how the card performs under real world conditions.
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After seeing the photos at https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_VII_Unboxing/2.html , the general direction of the radiator fins (top-bottom) and the size of the radiator, dominated by three fans with quite deep blades, I expect the card to have suboptimal thermal performance.
 
pete910 said:
Here's Phoronix unbox/First thoughts.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-vii-box&num=1



For £700 it better be Aluminium not some crap bit of tin :p
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If it is plastic then its an odd move considering the LE Vega had a full aluminium shroud, there's actually less aluminium in this shroud than the LE vega if you take the 3 fan holes into consideration and no front facing logo laser etched into the panel either. So you would at least think this shroud would cost less to make.
 
4K8KW10 said:
With 30% margin, it should cost north of 800 pounds.
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And i will say again, you don't know what it costs to build, you don't know what deals they have in place with suppliers for pricing on bulk orders of components. So all you are doing is throwing random numbers into the air based on nothing but guesses. I don't know what it costs, neither do you, so lets dispense with the BS that it's somehow a fact that they're taking a loss on it.
 
Gerard said:
And i will say again, you don't know what it costs to build, you don't know what deals they have in place with suppliers for pricing on bulk orders of components. So all you are doing is throwing random numbers into the air based on nothing but guesses. I don't know what it costs, neither do you, so lets dispense with the BS that it's somehow a fact that they're taking a loss on it.
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Just check Google again. It helps, for the sake of it.

 
Gerard said:
And i will say again, you don't know what it costs to build, you don't know what deals they have in place with suppliers for pricing on bulk orders of components. So all you are doing is throwing random numbers into the air based on nothing but guesses. I don't know what it costs, neither do you, so lets dispense with the BS that it's somehow a fact that they're taking a loss on it.
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This is what a lot of people don't get, What you or I can get/see prices at will be very different to what they pay.
 
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