Budget buddies 4eva, but back to the big leagues.
AMD is beloved in hobbyist circles. Mostly since their chips are popular to overclock for a reasonable price. But they’re setting their sights high with the new Radeon RX Vega, a high-power GPU meant for gaming. Specifically, they’re hoping to take a swing at NVIDIA’s offerings.
AMD isn’t really dropping much in benchmarks, though. Especially since the emphasis is on baseline performance rather than it’s greatest of feats. They are promising twice the throughput per cycle and memory bandwidth of their other offerings. Which probably isn’t the highest water mark to pass, but is obviously an improvement over what they’ve been putting out. Might just be them being humble; who knows?
The cost, on the other hand, is where things get a bit tricky. The stand alone cards, the Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 Air Cooled, cost $399 and $499, respectively. But the company also plans to offer pack that include 2 games (Prey and Wolfenstein II in the U.S.) as well as discounts on a Samsung ultra-wide display and a Ryzen 7-plus-motherboard combo. Each of the earlier mentioned cards tack on $100 to the price tag of these packs, but there is another; the $699 Vega 64 Liquid Cooled is only available through one of these packs. The series launches August 14.
Also, they’re dropping the 16 core Threadripper processor on August 10th for $999, alongside 12- and 8-core processors ($799 and $549, respectively). The Threadripper was enough to make sure Intel would respond with the Core i9. And hey, if you can’t trust the company that made Bender’s ass the shiniest metal ass that ever existed, who can you trust?
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