AMD's Radeon 7 GPU, the world's first graphics card built on a seven nanometer (7 nm) process technology, has just gone on sale.
The Radeon 7 - stylized as "Radeon VII" - represents a major performance improvement over the previous generation Radeon Vega 64.
AMD claims that for the first time, engineers were able to increase memory bandwidth by 2.1x over Radeon Vega 64which improves overall performance by 35% in Battlefield 5 and 42% in Strange Brigade.
Key features include a base clock of 1450 MHz, boosting clock speeds to 1750 MHz, 60 compute units, and 3840 stream processors. Stream processors on AMD graphics chips are roughly equivalent to Nvidia CUDA cores - which means that on paper this compares well to Nvidia RTX 2080The Founders Edition has a 1515 MHz base clock, 1800 MHz boost clock and 2944 CUDA cores.
While AMD doesn't use ray tracing, the manufacturing process is interesting. Simply put, a 7nm node means more transistors can be installed on the processor die than, say, on a 12nm PC component.
AMD's previous generation Radeon cards used a 12nm design, while Nvidia's latest 20-series GPUs are also 12nm components.
Higher transistor density means (in theory) better handling, or cheaper prices. Radeon 7 costs about $ 700 in the US, but prices for the CIS countries are not yet known.
The US price is currently roughly $ 699, which is significantly less than the $ 970 asking price for the Founders Edition RTX 2080.
To sweeten the purchase, AMD is offering free copies of the recently released remake Resident evil 2and when they become available for download, copies of Devil may cry 5 and The division 2.
