AMD Vega RX graphics cards available August 14 from $399
Ahead of its Siggraph event, AMD has announced its new generation of graphics cards. The Radeon RX Vega generation cards will be available on August 14 and cards will start at $399.
AMD had previously announced Vega video cards in the Frontier and Instinct series, but they had to wait for the RX Vega cards that are mainly made for the gamers market. Those cards come in different versions and in various bundles, with a starting price of $399. For that money AMD sells a bare RX Vega56 card with air cooling and a black plastic housing. That card is also available as a bundle, where for an additional $100 you get two games, Wolfenstein II and Prey, as well as $200 off a 34″ Samsung Freesync monitor and $100 off a Ryzen 7 processor combo. The RX Vega56 is a slightly stripped-down Vega chip: not all stream processors are active, but as the name indicates only 56 of the 64 compute units, good for 3584 stream processors.The bundles will be expanded in the future and the single sales are limited to one card per customer, so as not to give miners the opportunity to buy all cards.
| Compute units | 56 | 64 | 64 |
| Stream Processors | 3584 | 4096 | 4096 |
| Base GPU Speed | 1156MHz | 1247MHz | 1406MHz |
| Boost Speed | 1471MHz | 1546MHz | 1677MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 410GB/s | 484GB/s | 484GB/s |
| HBM2 cache | 8GB | 8GB | 8GB |
| tdp | 165W | 220W | 265W |
| board power | 210W | 195W | 345W |
| single price | $399 | $499 | N/A |
The RX Vega64 has all components active and therefore has 64 compute units and 4096 stream processors with a base clock speed of 1247MHz and a boost speed of 1546MHz. The card is available in three configurations. The water-cooled version, the Vega 64 Liquid Cooled, has higher clock speeds than the air-cooled card. The Aqua pack costs $699 and, like the Vega56 bundle, it offers a discount on a Ryzen motherboard combo and a Freesync monitor with two games and you get the water-cooled RX Vega64. For $599 you can buy the same bundle, but with an air-cooled Vega64 with the Limited brushed aluminum housing or black plastic housing, both with 30mm fan. Finally, you can purchase the air-cooled Vega64 card separately for $499. The Radeon RX Vega cards will be available in August.
In addition to the Radeon RX Vega cards, AMD also announced two Radeon Pro cards based on the Vega architecture, the Radeon Pro WX9100 and Radeon Pro SSG. The first is a fairly regular Vega card but doubles the hbm2 memory from 8GB to 16GB. The card has all stream processors active and offers 12.3tflops of computing power. The SSG card, short for solid state graphics, is intended for deep learning, among other things, with 2TB of flash memory available to write to at 6GB/s and which can be read at 8GBb/s. Also, large files, for example from 4k or 8k video editing, can be loaded into the flash memory of the graphics card. That should give much faster access to video files than when it’s on an SSD. The SSg card is otherwise identical to the WX9100 in terms of GPU. The price of the WX9100 is $ 799, that of the Radeon Pro SSG has not yet been announced.
| aqua | Vega64 Liquid | $699 | $200 off Freesync monitor $100 off Ryzen 7/AM4 Motherboard Kit |
| black | Vega64 Air Black Vega64 Air Limited |
$599 | $200 off Freesync monitor $100 off Ryzen 7/AM4 Motherboard Kit |
| red | Vega56 Air | $499 | $200 off Freesync monitor $100 off Ryzen 7/AM4 Motherboard Kit |
| Vega64 Liquid | unknown |
| Vega64 Air Black Vega64 Air Limited |
$499 |
| Vega56 Air | $399 |