AMD is giving their upcoming Radeon RX Vega graphics cards a tour and today it landed in its first destination, Budapest. During the tour, AMD will showcase the gaming capabilities and details of their flagship gaming graphics cards to AMD community members.

AMD Radeon RX Vega Lands in Budapest - Shows Performance Close To a GTX 1080, Launching in 2 Weeks

In Budapest, AMD partnered up with ASUS to showcase the gaming performance on the Radeon RX Vega graphics cards along with other ASUS and AMD products. There wasn't anything new to see at the booth except the Radeon RX Vega graphics card which wasn't actually shown to the public but attendees were able to check out the performance of the graphics card for the first time hands-on. AMD will also be going to other places in the coming days as mentioned by them earlier:

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Budapest, Hungary July 18 at the Akvárium Klub from 2 to 7 CET.

Portland, USA, PDXLAN in, July 21 to 23

Los Angeles, USA, SIGGRAPH 2017, July 30















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The AMD Radeon RX Vega was tested on a Ryzen 7 system inside a closed PC. People were not able to see the graphics card at all and play through only one gaming title. The title selected was DICE's Battlefield 1 and was running on a resolution of 3440x1440. The graphics card was compared to a second PC that was running a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (reference card). This was confirmed by a AMD representative who said that they were using a GTX 1080 (Non Ti) against the Radeon RX Vega graphics card.

Both systems were running a curved display, one had G-Sync and one had FreeSync so it's obvious that the G-Sync system had GeForce card installed and the FreeSync system had Radeon installed. However, there was no indication which system was using the FreeSync + Radeon setup and which had the G-Sync + GeForce setup. Both monitors were fully covered so even the specific models weren't mentioned.

Anyways, moving onward, there was one system that faced a little hiccup and was performing worse. There's no way to tell which system that was but we know that a single GeForce GTX 1080 does over 60 FPS (average) on 4K resolution with Ultra settings. The tested resolution is not high compared to 4K so it's possible that the GTX 1080 was performing even better. Plus, AMD not publicly showing any FPS counter and restricting max FPS with syncing showcases that there was possibly a problem with the Radeon RX Vega system against the GeForce part.

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The AMD rep guy was asked and he said it's a GTX 1080 non Ti against the RX VEGA

We were given 2 systems with an RX and a GTX to play BF1 on.

They do use free- and g-sync and yes there were no fps counters. From my experience there were no fps drops on any of the systems.

There was a little hiccup, but they resolved it in an instant and from my experience and many others the difference was unnoticeable. Mind you we were not told and are not going to be told which setup is which. Via Szunyogg Reddit

Lastly, AMD reps told the public that the AMD system has a $300 US difference which means two things. First, AMD puts the average price of a FreeSync monitor compared to a G-Sync monitor as $200 US cheaper. Then if we take that $200 out of the $300 from what AMD told, it means that the Radeon RX Vega can be as much as $100 US cheaper than the GeForce GTX 1080 at launch which should be a good deal but they haven't told anything on things aside from that like performance numbers in other titles, power consumption figures and most importantly, what clocks was Vega running at which seems a little sad.

AMD Radeon Vega Lineup:

Graphics Card Radeon R9 Fury X Radeon RX 480 Radeon RX Vega Frontier Edition Radeon RX Vega 64 Radeon RX Vega 56( Radeon Pro Vega 64 Radeon Pro Vega 56 GPU Fiji XT Polaris 10 Vega 10 Vega 10 XTX/XT Vega 10 XL Vega 10 Vega 10 Process Node 28nm 14nm FinFET FinFET FinFET FinFET FinFET FinFET Compute Units 64 36 64 64 56 64 56 Stream Processors 4096 2304 4096 4096 3584 4096 3584 Performance 8.6 TFLOPS

8.6 (FP16) TFLOPS 5.8 TFLOPS

5.8 (FP16) TFLOPS 13 TFLOLPS

26 (FP16) TFLOPS Up to 13+ TFLOPS

26+ (FP16) TFLOPS TBA ~13 TFLOLPS

~25 (FP16) TFLOPS 11 TFLOLPS

22 (FP16) TFLOPS Texture Mapping Units 256 144 256 256 TBA 256 224 Render Output Units 64 32 64 64 TBA 64 64 Memory 4GB HBM 8GB GDDR5 16GB HBM2 TBA TBA 16GB HBM2 8GB HBM2 Memory Bus 4096-bit 256-bit 2048-bit 2048-bit 2048-bit 2048-bit 2048-bit Bandwidth 512GB/s 256GB/s 484GB/s TBA TBA TBA 400GB/s TDP 275W 150W 300-375W TBA TBA TBA TBA Launch 2015 2016 June 2017 July 2017 July 2017 December 2017 December 2017 Price $649 US $199 (4 GB)

$229 (8 GB) $999 (Reference)

$1499 (Liquid) $499 (Reference)

$549 (Limited Air)

$599 (Liquid)

$649 (Liquid LE) $399 TBD TBD







All it tells is that AMD is leveraging their new graphics card using technology that's much older. It almost seems like that Vega will be great only if you plan to purchase a FreeSync monitor because otherwise, the features touted for the RX Vega cards aren't doing much to help it in the performance sector against a rivaling card that is more than a year old and available in several custom flavors that further help boost performance. We hope that AMD shares more details of Radeon RX Vega cards in the coming weeks.