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Last week, it was confirmed that AMD's next high-end graphics card, the RX Vega, would release within the next two months and now, it seems like the launch is closer than ever with benchmark results now landing online. This week, a new entry was spotted in the 3DMark TimeSpy database, showing performance for what appears to be the upcoming RX Vega.
The database entry was originally spotted by Guru3D and in this particular run of TimeSpy, the unnamed AMD GPU managed to score 5721 points. The benchmark was run on a system featuring 16GB of DDR4 RAM at 2128MHz, an ASUS X370-Pro motherboard and a Ryzen 7 1800X processor.
The graphics score sits somewhere between a GTX 1070 and a GTX 1080, with the GPU core running at 1200MHz and the video memory running at 700MHz. Given that HBM on the FuryX ran at 500MHz, this speed is quite plausible for HBM2. So what makes us think this is Vega? Well, the device ID ‘687F:C1' was reportedly spotted on the benchmark, which is the same device ID shown on leaked Vega performance from back in December.
Obviously, a huge grain of salt does need to be taken here with these results. These are still work in progress drivers, the benchmark was run on an engineering sample so clock speeds may not be finalised and lastly, there is also the possibility of a cut-down die. AMD may be planning a couple of RX Vega cards targeting various levels of performance, so this leak does not paint a complete enough picture for us to come to conclusions just yet.
KitGuru Says: This particular benchmark result is underwhelming considering the expectations for Vega. However, as pointed out above, we don't know all of the details yet and it is safe to assume that this wasn't a finalised board, running on finished drivers. Hopefully we start to see more in the coming weeks to help fill the blanks.
RyZen looked underwhelming at first. Now its considered competitive AF.
Vega wont have the same fate looking at these benchmarks.
This looks massively different then what was being touted. Underwhelming.
RyZens initial “leaked” benchmarks didn’t look all that great either. The Cycle Continues.
Ryzen in general is a far cry to what amd was beating there chest about. It really isnt vastly different then intel`s offerings and hasnt really got people buying it over intel. There mid tier cpu of course has price to perf ratio over a $1000 cpu but theres $400 intel cpus that compete competitively with ryzen with the same features as well.
Lol. “Intels mature architecture that compete competitively with from scratch first gen RyZen”
Well we seen benchmarks with ryen losing badly too. So it is what it is. New or Old architecture. Intel still seems to not really care.
I disagree. They jumped at the 7nm fab quickly after RyZen’s release. Not to mention the price reduction we saw on kaby and skylake. Then with the rebates to OEM to use their products which was similar, yet not as extreme, as what we saw in 2006. RyZen is causing more disruption than you might assume. Insiders suggested Intel was caught with their pants down as they were attempting to push into mobile unsuccessfully.
We’ll find out the nitty gritty at 2 PM PST with AMD’s quarterly finance call. In the mean time RyZen is hitting top picks at retailers like amazon, newegg and others and is quite often sold out.
Hmm will see. I just dont see intel flinching.
I’ll digress a tad. I won’t claim RyZen will take 50% of the market share. No where close. But AMD will start making gains in market share starting with this first release. Eventually, especially after 7nm node (~2019) we’ll see AMD climb up a bit. It will be up to whether or not they’re able to match Intels revamped architecture in 2019 after Intel drops all archaic support.
We should see AMD grab some noticeable ground in both desktop and server markets. By years end.
I’d be more interested in performance per-watt over the 1070 and 1080. If its supposed to perform between those two cards
this is on par with a gtx1070 the1070 is 390 dollars looks like more amd hype and lies amd says bulldozer turns out to b a kids toy
This is funny some turd releases benches to the internet and people assume hey look that card sucks. Ever figure maybe who ever is behind it actually wanted to down play a chip that has got very much hype over the last year. Heck I see a lot of websites pretty much saying Vega is a failure problem is the frackin card has not even released yet and we do not know what hardware was actually used in these all of a sudden leaked benches I say it stinks to high hell and is probably like I said some turd being a asshat or is preemptive damage control I won’t go on with that last bit mind you..lol
Anyways point is like the writer says take these scores with a huge grain of salt we have no idea what the hardware is or if the numbers doctored.
Truth is Ryzen kicks the snot out of Intel pretty much every where except in gaming. Yes it comes close in games most of the time and kicks butt slapped in some others. I would have been very surprised if a much lower clocked Ryzen actually was able to beat a 7700K OC @5GHz and the Ryzen only at 3.9-4.0GHz. Some say oh Mhz does not matter well I guess it does when you look at the numbers. Now in the games that use more cores or have got updates the Ryzen catches up nicely or comes very close again this is at a lower clock speed.
Ryzen’s biggest problem was all the hype leading up to the launch People were expecting it to cream everything Intel. When it did most of what it said ti would but got 15-20fps lower in some games people right away of it sucks at gaming. Well no it does not it gets over 100FPS in all games or at least it does not after some patches to games and bios updates. Those people that said it sucks at gaming have to recheck the newest reviews it has come a long way in the time since release.
Trust me I am not an AMD Fanboy all my CPU’s are Intel because that was the best choice for gaming and my work related stuff. I may switch to Ryzen+ when it is released at this point in time I have no need to upgrade.
I really don’t care if Intel cares or not but I think you will find they do care. You won’t see them lower prices they are to proud to do that. Intel has never been a company to rush crap but they sure are now. socket 2066 with 7700K(renamed 7740+200Mhz) slapped onto a 2066 socket format with iGPU disabled and the launch coming a lot sooner nope they aren’t worried not at all. Oh then their is the 6 cores coming to mainstream a bit sooner than they planned again not worried nope not at all…Yea they care don’t try kidding yourself.
Believe me Intel is flinching and has a battle-plan to completely wipe AMD out, again.
I believe current knowledge is that the ram is supposed to be running at 500MHz and the core will be 1600MHz+. This is probably just someone messing around to see what higher ram speeds would do, they might have needed to lower the core speed to fix thermals. Not to mention we’ve already seen benchmarks of vega competing handily with the 1080, and the pro vega models can push 12.5 tflops with passive cooling…. meaning with real cooling we could expect 13+, which is significantly higher than anything nvidia has.