Radeon RX Vega 64 And RX Vega 56 Review: AMD Back In High-End Graphics

Today is the day AMD's Radeon Technologies Group has been working towards for a long time. The official launch of the Radeon RX Vega is here, and it's now time for AMD RTG's moment in the spotlight. Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) has been on a tear as of late; the desktop and server processor group executed successful launches of its Ryzen desktop processor, EPYC server platform, and finally the big bang last week with its Ryzen Threadripper enthusiast 12- and 16-core processors, which were met with high praise. Ryzen, EPYC and Threadripper are tough acts to follow, just ask Intel. So too is AMD's rival NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 10 series, with desktop graphics cards like the GeForce GTX 1080 soaking up market share. But if AMD's CPU team can take on the likes of Skylake-X, RTG ought to be able to take on GeForce 10, right? That's the 64-thousand dollar question (pun intended) we know you're all here to find out the answer to.
The card you see above is the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64, the flagship GPU launching today that's meant to bring the fight back to NVIDIA in the high-end desktop PC graphics space. The Vega 10 graphics engine under its hood is comprised of some 12.5 billion transitions, based on cutting-edge 14nm FinFET semiconductor fab technology, with a honkin' 486mm2 die size and supported by a healthy 8GB of HBM2 (High Bandwidth Memory). That GPU will power a family of new Radeon RX Vega cards from AMD, the likes of which you can see specified in detail right here in the following slide...

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