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hey everyone even here with hydra connects and it's almost time for AMD's Radeon 7 GP to launch on February the 7th but we decided to take a little bit of a closer look a few weeks before the actual review goes live since there are tons of things to go over now even after the announcement of this GPU at CES there was still a lot of questions on how do you position the waiting on 7 GPU and you know what the final specs are so I'm gonna put out every bit of validated information that we have from AMD in preparation for the final reveal that's going to take place in February even after the announcement at CES no one seems to be really excited about this card but you never know you know things may turn around the things may turn the other way around as we're going through the testing procedure but anyways let's get into it but first a quick message from our sponsor the new master liquid ml AI a liquid coolers from Coolermaster come in both 120 and 240 millimeter variants now with 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like there were other plans instead of using a brand new architecture to test their 790 meter process E&D decided to bring Vega back like a zombie further refine it and heat it up with a massive 16 gigabytes of HBM to memory I know that might be a disappointing for some of you guys but I think it's a smart move rather than risking issues by trying to combine a next-generation design with a pretty much untested manufacturing process the problem is this also highlights how far aimed he's behind on their GPU roadmap you see in 2016 Navi was on track for a 2018 launch but obviously that didn't happen since last year passed by pretty quickly actually back then the move to 7 animator Vega wasn't even on the radar now things in the Radeon timeline have become a lot less clear between 2017 and 2020 I'm not going to talk about rumours here but it looks like the way on sound card is simply a placeholder for AMD to stay a bit relevant in the GP market by becoming part of the news cycle at least until na'vi or their next generation architecture is ready sometime the older vega 64 GPU actually represented the architectures highest in configuration with 64 compute units and 4096 cores as you can see the core was also pretty big which made it really expensive to produce not only that but the 8 gigabyte of HBM to memory was cutting edge back then and added a lot to the overall cost so the move to 790 meters has allowed Andy to minimize their core size from around 500 square millimetres to just a tad over 300 square millimetres which is pretty impressive HP m2 has also become less expensive so AMD took this opportunity to double it to 16 gigabytes the cool thing is the smaller diarrhoea also includes a double sized memory bus so the total number of transistors has actually increased from 12.5 billion to 13.2 billion now this all sounds really interesting but there have been some cuts instead of featuring the Vegas 64 full amount of computing units Andy has removed four of them that means the Radeon seven will have less coarse texture units and other on-die hardware we're not quite sure if these units have simply been disabled or aren't present at all the answer to that will have to wait for the final review video so stay tuned for that now this brings me to the reading on 7 specs now some of these are educated guesses since we don't think AMD made any changes to the overall layout of their compute units but right now it looks like it will have around 38 40 stream processors 240 texture units and 64 our Opie's that will operate through a 4096 bit HBM to interface with a massive bandwidth of about a terabyte per second due to the 1k or its memory clocks the basin maximum frequencies on this card are actually pretty close to what the rare Vega 64 liquid-cooled versions head but it looks like the seventh animated process will allow for pretty high speeds so what does that mean for performance well according to some very carefully selected benchmarks from AMD even though the Radeon seven has less cores in the Vega 64 it can actually outperform that card that points to there being some additional enhancements built into the revised Vega core other than just high clock speeds and more memory but outside of these very basic numbers Andy told us to expect frame rates of this new card to typically hit between 15 to 25% better than the original Vega GPU a few games will feature performance above and below those points too now all of that sounds impressive on paper but let's quickly recall where that places the Radeon sound based on our our TX 2080 benchmarks across 13 games the Arctic's 2080 averaged about 30 percent faster than the vega 64 at both 1440p and 4k which means the way and some will likely end up being behind the 2080 or basically tied up with the GTX 1080i of course a lot of this will be dependent on whether a game was produced in partnership with AMD or Nvidia but let's not get into that right now one of the main problems with this is pricing because when Andy showed this slide at CES every lifestreams comments exploded it seemed like Andy created a gtx 980ti competitor that's almost two years late and costs as much as money even if Andy's promise of 25% improvement over Vegas 64 is true that card was launched at just five hundred dollars back in August of 2017 as a matter of fact that's only 15 to 20 dollars less than some custom r-tx 2080 cards okay so we do have tons of issues with our TX features not being available but it's ray tracing D LSS and adaptive shading are all feature boxes that NVIDIA has but aim D doesn't so other than the possibility the Radeon seven has some in performance at Amy's keeping behind closed doors how could they justify a $700 price point well it seems like the updated Vega architecture has received some very serious enhancements to improve content creation performance this is a pretty big deal since it could make the Radeon seven eight perfect dual-use TP for gamers who also need work space acceleration like we've been seeing in the past in programs like premiere of v-ray and blender and ease OpenCL has a long way to go before its performance is anywhere near Nvidia's CUDA acceleration but it looks like that might be changing at least that's what I hope Ami's also including three free games with this card so you get Devil May Cry 5 at the division 2 and Resident Evil 2 but the value of those will be entirely dependent on whether or not you are planning to buy those in the first place we also can't forget that Nvidia is currently offering buyers of their Arctic's 2080 free copies of anthem and battlefield 5 the be quiet dark based Pro 900 and revision 2 is here with the modern IO for your type C accessories and Qi charging gadgets the new hub is good for 8 fans and RGB strips plus steam terior is incredibly modular for airflow water cooling invert systems and now with the power supply shroud check out the v2 down below so overall the reading of 7 looks like a pretty cool card with a triple fan cooler that's topped with a solar Stroud the side is a glowing Radeon logo as well as a small red square with an R right in the middle even though it's using a 7 nanometre manufacturing process don't expect a lower power consumption which should be obvious from the - 8 pin PCI power connectors actually the board's power is still listed at about 300 watts so a stock way on seven will consume as much as a Vega 64 or quite a bit more than an RT X 2080 the backplate is also pretty impressive but that's pretty much a standard on every higher in graphics card these days one thing I do need to mention is that board partners won't be launching custom designs but right away and none of them could confirm whether or not it would even happen from everything we've been hearing the reading on 7 will be in pretty short supply alright guys so this is one to wrap things up since something has to be saved for the actual review but right now the rating 7 looks like an interesting GPU even though it's price might seem a little bit too high all we need right now is the official benchmarks so definitely is tune in for that on the 7th of February if I were you I'd actually you know add a notification or a reminder to my phone will probably write it down somewhere so you don't actually miss that but is this graphics card something that you'll likely buy or will everyone keep waiting to see how a meeting video will fight it out in the mainstream market later this year let us know in the comments down below an ebow with hybrid connects thank you so much for watching make sure to check out some relevant content over here subscribe to our boot sequence channel I'm signing off and I'll see you guys in the next one