News Radeon VII Allegedly Reaches End of Life Status, AMD Responds

[Admin]

According to Cowcotland's sources, AMD has discontinued the Radeon VII 7nm gaming graphics card.

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[bit_user]

I wonder if its discontinuation actually has more to do with the launch of the Radeon Pro Vega II than Navi.

I wish I could justify buying one, as they're easily the best GPU compute card for the money, but I have no way to justify it. And, the way these things usually work, by the time I actually need it for something, a faster product would be available for less $.

 

[OMGPWNTIME]

The difference in price isn't 70%, it's closer to 55%; still a no-brainer though on the 5700 XT over the VII.

 

[bit_user]

The difference in price isn't 70%, it's closer to 55%; still a no-brainer though on the 5700 XT over the VII.

For gaming, absolutely.

However, the VII is still somewhat a unicorn product. It's all about the superlatives:

• 16 GB
• 1 TB/sec memory bandwidth
• 2.78 fp64 TFLOPS

Compare that with any other consumer video card you want, and the only one that comes close is Titan V. Here's how it compares:

• 12 GB
• 0.65 TB/sec
• 6.14 fp64 TFLOPS

Of course, the Titan V costs > 4x as much.

For anyone doing GPU-compute (other than deep learning), the Radeon VII is still a phenomenal deal. I just wish it had PCIe 4.0.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I wonder if its discontinuation actually has more to do with the launch of the Radeon Pro Vega II than Navi.

I wish I could justify buying one, as they're easily the best GPU compute card for the money, but I have no way to justify it. And, the way these things usually work, by the time I actually need it for something, a faster product would be available for less $.

That would be my guess. Since this is basically a professional card packaged as a gaming card when they move on there will be less available that don't pass testing.

I do love the responses from AMD though. Just generic lines made up for such questions.

"Your office is burning"

"We continue to see X as a strong brand that will continue to bring a burning fierce competition to the market."