AMD Radeon RX Vega could match GTX 1080’s speed – but maybe not its price

By Darren Allan

It’s just a few short days now until the official reveal of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, and we’ve had another benchmark leak – this time from a ‘sort of’ official source – plus some potentially alarming news on pricing.

The benchmark is from 3DMark’s Fire Strike test and was conducted by ‘TheGameTechnician’, which is apparently the handle of Jason Evangelho, Senior Technical Marketing Specialist at AMD. Hence the ‘semi-official’ nature – while we can’t be 100% sure that this is Evangelho and not some misinformation-spreading pretender, the latter seems unlikely, particularly as AMD hasn’t disavowed the figures.

Unfortunately, the testing doesn’t specify the exact model of card, and whether it’s an air-cooled or water-cooled variant – or indeed what mode the card was in (i.e. overclocked?) – but three benchmarks are listed, two of them for a RX Vega card clocked at 1,630MHz, and the other running at 1,536MHz.

The Fire Strike benchmarks recorded were 22,330, 22,291 and 20,949 (the latter for the slower base clock) respectively, as Digital Trends reports.

So with the card clocked at 1,630MHz the GPU is hitting an average of 22,295, which is just slightly slower than an MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components