AMD’s RX Vega GPU has been spotted in the Futuremark database, showcasing performance that is similar to NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070, which would mean that the upcoming AMD flagship graphics card won’t capable to compete with NVIDIA’s high-end models. The results posted in the Futuremark database has been gathered using a Ryzen 7 1800X processor.


These results are simply not as impressive as they should be. Maybe this unknown Vega card is a cut-down version of the flagship, but we would doubt that. The result shows that the card is running Time Spy with a score of 5950 points and a graphics score of 5721 points. According to the chart from Guru3D, this GPU is able to beat the NVIDIA GTX 1070 and the AMD R9 Fury X, which simply isn't enough to justify over two years of development since the last high-end model.

The 3DMark database also shows a GPU clock speeds of 1200MHz. This is pretty low and apparently one reason why this card cannot compete with NVIDIA’s current high-end models. Nevertheless there is still a little bit of hope left that at launch we’ll see Vega cards with significantly higher clock speeds.

Looking at the memory specs, the “undetected AMD” card features 8GB of graphics VRAM running at 700MHz. Since this card is supposed to feature HBM memory, the clock frequency looks very plausible. On the Radeon R9 Fury the memory was set to 500MHz.

AMD has already confirmed that they are going to release their Vega graphics cards during the first half of 2017. Judging by the number of teasers and news it appears that the launch of the upcoming AMD RX Vega GPU is imminent and we are pretty sure that during the next weeks more details will surface. However like most early benchmark results, these performance numbers are indicative of nothing since many factors could change before the launch of the card.




Source: Guru3D