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Radeon RX Vega trailer_ by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Jul 31, 2017 1:42 PM UTC Radeon RX Vega trailer by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Jul 31, 2017 1:42 PM UTC In the crazy high-end PC gaming graphics card market, you have two choices: AMD or Nvidia. Nvidia presently commands the performance roost with cards at the tip-top of its GeForce 10 series. AMD has trailed its rival at this level for years, opting to instead do battle in the market’s budget and mainstream tiers. That’s about to change, with the advent of [AMD’s Radeon RX Vega series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVzDQtHzqo). The Sunnyvale-based chip-maker just unveiled a parade of cards based on its [Vega architecture](https://gaming.radeon.com/en-us/RXVega/), first announced [earlier this year at CES 2017](http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/vega-amds-new-2017jan05.aspx). Vega means faster-clocked processors and radically overhauled memory subsystems to improve metrics like minimum frame rates and performance hiccups in games. (AMD calls the latter feature “high bandwidth memory 2.”) The new series of Vega-based cards will launch August 14 and start at $399, running up to $699 for a liquid-cooled pack leader. It’s a paper launch, mind you, so we’re getting family tiers, specifications and suggested retail prices, but no independent benchmarks. Best to treat AMD’s claims, which show marked improvements over Nvidia’s GTX 1080, as ballpark figures, in other words. Those claims — for its $499 midrange RX Vega 64, the tailing integer signifying its number of compute units — emphasize minimum frame rates, a conservative but in some ways more insightful metric that, if accurate, illustrates Vega’s focus on frame rate fluidity while providing a practical sense of where the bottom lies. The only glaring omission is a 4K comparison, but we’ll get that soon enough. Look for the $699 liquid cooled version of the Vega 64 to perform markedly better (and presumably be the overclocker’s choice), and the entry-side $399 Vega 56 with fewer texture units and lower memory clock to slot lower. AMD also plans to offer bundle versions that include both hardware and software, say you’re looking to build a new PC from the ground up. These “packs” include discounts on select monitors that support AMD’s FreeSync tech as well as AMD motherboards, and bundle copies of _Prey_ ([read TIME’s review](http://time.com/4769912/prey-review/)) and a voucher for _Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus_, Bethesda’s new alt-history shooter that’s due October 27\. You can add $100 to the Vega 56 and 64 prices above to get their respective “pack” version costs, while the liquid-cooled Vega 64 is only available as part of a pack for $699. ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:02] For a gamer, stepping up to a Vega card is like having [00:05] terrible vision and putting on a pair of glasses for the very [00:08] first time. You thought you were seeing before, but you [00:10] weren't. The level of fidelity and performance you're going [00:13] to get out of a Vega card It's like you're playing video [00:15] games again for first time. [ MUSIC ] I just got my Vega. [00:20] The first thing that I'm gonna do tonight when I get home is [00:22] I'm gonna play Prey with it. And I love Prey because I think [00:25] the vision of putting art- deco in space was just absolutely [00:28] groundbreaking. I'm really looking forward to playing [00:31] Wolfenstein II the New Colossus. From RX Sega. It looks [00:35] gorgeous and it plays great. I'm really looking forward to [00:39] Far Cry 5 since that teaser, that game looks stunning. For [00:42] quick shoot- em up fun I'm really looking forward to Quake [00:45] Champions. And to be terrified I'm looking forward to Evil [00:48] Within. RX Sega's gonna play all of those titles really, [00:51] really well and I" m gonna have great fun. To tell [00:55] you the story of [ UNKNOWN ], I have to go back 20 years [00:59] of PC gaming. The first Wolfenstein, Quake, all [01:03] if this stuff started back then. At that point in time, most [01:07] PCs were running sub VGLs which was 320 by 240 pixels. [01:12] By just to get a perspective on how many pixels that is, [01:15] that's less than a small inch on your phone right now. Now [01:19] as we were driving your games that you are playing to look [01:22] much more beautiful, much more lifelike, in the process we [01:26] wall this thing called a GPU. And this GPU became the [01:29] super computer. We did not plan for it, it just became [01:33] that. And now this super computer is being used for [01:38] many other interesting tasks of said [ UNKNOWN ] Now as [01:42] a gamer, you should look at this technology with pride [01:47] because what you have got. All the last [01:51] 20 years Resulted in this technology. We are the super [01:53] computer of the future. With [02:00] the introduction of RX VEGA we bring to market a new [02:03] technology which was previously the preserve of very very [02:07] high end workstations costing many thousands of dollars. [02:11] HBM 2 or HIGH BANDWIDTH MEMORY 2 gives us eight [02:14] giga bytes of RAM at unprecedented speeds. It will improve [02:18] the experience by allowing you to run better visuals at [02:22] higher resolutions with more effects, more bangs, crashes, [02:26] whizzes, smoke, fire, supporting things like high dynamic [02:29] range. In Vega, both your average frame [02:33] rate, your maximum frame rate, and your minimum frame [02:36] rates, all of them, are going to be substantially better than [02:40] previous immigration, because we have so much [02:42] horsepower in Vega. [ MUSIC ] In [ UNKNOWN ] [02:46] 200 feet of some Vega, but if I have to pick one that in the [02:50] long run is going to have the most impact Is the high [02:54] bandwidth cache. High bandwidth cache controller is a [02:56] unique feature of the big architecture. Memory can be [03:00] pledged in and out without starting the pipeline and without [03:03] interrupting the flow of the [ UNKNOWN ]. Imagine you're [03:07] in a game and you turn around the wall and then there is a [03:10] bad guy or a monster and he's just about to shoot you. And [03:16] you have a frame drop there, and you're dead. So in Vega, [03:20] a big reason why we created the high bandwidth cache [03:23] technology is to completely avoid that. Because you never [03:26] have to stall for loading your resources, loading [03:30] your textures. HBCC makes it easier to manipulate and [03:34] walk with larger data sets, large models. So obviously at [03:38] Bethesda we're known for making games with big worlds, [03:41] and with those big worlds comes need for more [03:43] technology. It's not just about making massive world where [03:46] you can go anywhere and do anything, but it's about being [03:48] able to see that whole and really. Incredible resolution to [03:52] really feel like this is a place that you're in. On Far Cry 5 we [03:57] spent almost a year just building the world. Just building [04:01] the space and making it feel credible. So that means from [04:04] every blade of grass all the way up to the clouds in the sky [04:07] to the way the water works to help people respond That the [04:10] way that the wind comes across the mountains to the [04:12] music that you hear, it has to feel like a real place. [04:15] [ MUSIC ] [04:17] RX Vega supports a new feature called rapid packed math. [04:22] It is the ability to execute two set of instructions for the price [04:25] of one. This means better performance and obviously better [04:29] performance is all good news for developers and gamers [04:32] So we have low level access, to the hardware. We're able [04:34] to spend a lot of our time, optimizing that specifically. That [04:36] means we can take full advantage, and design our engine [04:39] around the graphics architecture. We've been working [04:42] closely, with a company in Finland, called Futuremark. [04:44] Futuremark has been developing a demo, that [04:48] aims to showcase. What kind of results that demo [04:52] [ UNKNOWN ] could achieve by leveraging rapid act math. [04:56] This demo shows a performance benefits of at least 15 %. [04:59] [ MUSIC ] You keep going [05:03] a modern graphics card, it's pumping out so many frames [05:06] per second, and if your monitor can't keep up with it, you [05:08] are going to end up with screen tearing and it's horrible [05:11] and it takes away from your game. What FreeSync does is [05:14] stop that tearing from happening. FreeSync is a technology [05:18] that allows us to adapt the refresh rate of the monitor to [05:23] the rate the game can actually render frames at. You get [05:26] no tearing, and you get low latency without motion judder. [05:29] FreeSync 2 monitors will really be the highest quality [05:32] version of FreeSync. I fought really hard for the term, Free. [05:36] Because we believe in open standards and we wanted as [05:40] many people as possible to have access to what we [05:42] thought was really great technology. If you are in a [05:45] tournament, every frame counts and if some of those [05:47] frames are tiering you're not sure if you moved far enough, [05:51] whether you're spot on, whether you can take the shot. [05:54] Every single is gonna upset you back. And then if they take [05:57] the shot before you do, maybe you've lost the game and [05:59] you're out of it. With 240 hertz in [ UNKNOWN ] [06:04] it felt like I was in the game again. It felt like I was [06:07] completely connected, and it mean that I could play the [06:10] game without worrying about the hardware. For a game [06:13] like Quake Champions a Freesync monitor and the refresh [06:17] rate is all about having the right equipment to play the sport. [06:20] You don't go play baseball without a bat. You shouldn't play [06:22] football without a helmet. You shouldn't be playing Quake [06:24] Champions without Freesync. You need a monitor that is [06:27] gonna allow you to embrace what Quake Champions is, [06:30] which is a true, competitive, entirely skill based game. [06:37] FreeSync 2. 0 is our latest and greatest FreeSync monitor [06:39] technology. One of our partners, Samsung, is launching a [06:42] brand new monitor very soon and it's got HDR and as well [06:45] as a brand new range of settings that allow gamers to [06:48] become more immersed. So HDR provides brilliant [06:51] imagery And more importantly a rich enviroment that a [06:54] gamer can have a fantastic emerse of experience. Right [07:00] from the start Vega delivers amazing performance and [07:03] amazing game experience. The thing with radio and [07:06] software is that although it brings out the best from the [07:09] hardware. It will actually take the hardware to the next [07:13] level. We are delivering a set of tools that is also gonna be [07:17] enabling game developers to customize the [07:21] gameplay for that hardware, for more responsive, sharper, [07:26] more intense gaming. And this is the value of Vega, [07:30] it's a platform, that is great now. But it's going to be [07:34] even greater, in the future. One [07:39] thing that's great about working with AMD, and this new [07:41] partnership we have, is sort of recommitting ourselves, is [07:45] bringing the best out of Vega cards. And unlocking all the [07:48] things, that they can do for our games, on an ongoing [07:51] basis. I really love working with AMD. They're a really, [07:55] really open company to work with. We love working with [07:58] graphics hardware, and optimizing and squeezing out [08:01] every little possible bit of power, designing our algorithms [08:04] around it, and hopefully the gamers really benefit from that [08:07] and they get great experience from playing our games. We [08:09] announced the new Wolfenstein game, Wolfenstein 2: [08:11] Then New Colossus, this year at E3 And we super excited [08:14] about bringing this sort of non- stop crazy over the top [08:17] action trill ride and bringing it out, using the Vulkan [08:20] technology. So it's not only gonna play amazing, but it's [08:23] gonna look amazing. We super excited to announce that [08:26] Far Cry 5 is collaborating LMD. On Far Cry we really [08:29] wanna try be pushing What we can be doing graphically. [08:32] We know that this brand started on PC. We know that it's [08:35] really important to the people who know Far Cry all the way [08:37] back from the very beginning. And so when we think about [08:39] what we wanna be able to do in the future, what we wanna [08:41] be able to build, we need a collaborative partner that's [08:43] gonna be able to say, okay, how far do you guys wanna ho. [08:46] How do you wanna push it? And AMD gives us that. [08:47] [ MUSIC ] We [08:52] wanted to get out there on the road and give gamers a [08:54] chance to test drive it, to sit in front of it, to have [08:59] it up on a beautiful Freesync monitor and being able to go [09:03] and just drink up that gaming experience. Once they [09:07] had a chance to experience the buttery smooth framerates [09:11] The incredibly high resolutions, the high dynamic range. [09:16] Just seeing that sense of wonder and excitement on the [09:19] face of the gamer, that just made us feel so excited and [09:23] that all the Effort that we went to bring Vega to market was [09:27] worth it in every respect. You take a top line product and [09:31] the price to performance value there is just amazing. Yeah, [09:34] I can't wait for Vega. As soon as you guys release one, I [09:36] want one in my hand. There was meetings and meetings [09:39] that we had with Raja where it would go on and on about [09:42] the shroud and I would stop him and say okay, can we [09:45] move onto engineering? And Raja would be like this is [09:47] engineering And I didn't understand it until I actually saw [09:51] the final shroud. It blew my mind away. I'm like, wow, this is [09:54] actually beautiful. [ MUSIC ] [09:57] You should choose Radeon RX [ UNKNOWN ] if you care [10:00] about those high resolutions, if you care about having the [10:03] very best GPU for new standards like Vulcan or Direct Tex [10:06] 12. You should choose and care about Vega if you want to [10:10] make sure that your games are being played the way they [10:13] were meant to be. Turn up all your quality settings [10:18] and run your games in their fullest glory. The best visual [10:22] quality that the game developer intended you to enjoy. [10:27] You get a class with pre- sync because that's the buttery [10:31] smooth class. And the best GPU to drive that [10:36] is Vega That's it. That's the simple answer. 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