The road to Vega has been a rather long one. We first saw the AMD Vega prototype running DOOM in December 2016. Not unlike a baby, it took AMD nine months to give birth to the AMD Radeon RX Vega. Today, we are going to take a close look at the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (Price Check) graphics card. Let’s see how it performs!

 

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Specifications Compared

This table compares the specifications of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (Price Check) against those of the Radeon RX Vega 56 (Price Check), and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080.

Specifications	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GPU	NVIDIA GP104	Vega 10	Vega 10	NVIDIA GP104
Stream Processors	2560	4096	3584	1920
Textures Per Clock	160	256	224	120
Pixels Per Clock	64	64	64	64
Base Clock Speed	1607 MHz	1247 MHz	1156 MHz	1506 MHz
Boost Clock Speed	1733 MHz	1546 MHz	1471 MHz	1683 MHz
Texture Fillrate	257~277.GT/s	319~396 GT/s	259~330 GT/s	181~202 GT/s
Pixel Fillrate	102.8~110.9 GP/s	79.8~98.9 GP/s	74.0~94.1 GP/s	96.4~107.7 GP/s
Graphics Memory	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB HBM2	8 GB HBM2	8 GB GDDR5
Graphics Memory Bus Width	320-bits	2048-bits	2048-bits	256-bits
Graphics Memory Speed	1250 MHz	945 MHz	800 MHz	2000 MHz
Graphics Memory Bandwidth	320.0 GB/s	483.8 GB/s	409.6 GB/s	256.0 GB/s
TDP	180 W	295 W	210 W	150 W
Retail Prices	$499 ($599 at launch)	$499	$399	$379 $449 (Founder's Edition)

 

Unboxing The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (Price Check) comes in a massive and heavy cardboard box. Let’s unbox it and see what is inside this giant box!

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When you unbox it, you will find the following items :

• One AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (Price Check) graphics card.
• One AMD Radeon RX Vega booklet
• One AMD Radeon RX Vega holocube
• One AMD Vega GPU sample
• One AMD Radeon RX Vega wrist band
• Two large AMD Radeon RX Vega case stickers
• Two small AMD Radeon RX Vega case stickers

AMD clearly had their fans in mind when they created this package. The AMD Vega GPU sample, in particular, was a very nice touch.

Next Page > The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Up Close

 

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