AMD Radeon VII was announced at CES 2019 and since then multiple publications have been reporting that the AMD Radeon VII might have supply issues and that there would only be 5000 cards available at launch. This would certainly not be great for sales and AMD has now confirmed that the supply will not be an issue.
AMD mentioned that the card will be available on 7th February and that there will be cards at AIB partners. AMD also mentioned that the rumors are false and that AMD Radeon VII supply won’t be an issue. The following is what the company had to say regarding the matter:
While we don’t report on production numbers externally, we will have products available via AIB partners and AMD.com at launch of Feb. 7, and we expect Radeon VII supply to meet demand from gamers.
| Graphics Card | AMD Radeon R9 Fury X | AMD Radeon Vega 64 | AMD Radeon Vega VII |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Fiji XT | Vega 10 | Vega 20 |
| Process Node | 28nm | 14nm | 7nm |
| Compute Units | 64 | 64 | 60 |
| Stream Processors | 4096 | 4096 | 3840 |
| Raster Operators | 64 | 64 | 128 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 256 | 256 | 240 |
| Clock Speed (Peak) | 1050 MHz | 1677 MHz (Liquid) | 1800 MHz |
| FP32 Compute | 8.6 TFLOPs | 13.7 TFLOPs (Liquid) | 13.8 TFLOPs |
| Memory (VRAM) | 4 GB HBM | 8 GB HBM2 | 16 GB HBM2 |
| Memory Bus | 4096-bit | 2048-bit | 4096-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 512 GB/s | 484 GB/s | 1 TB/s |
| TDP | 275W | 350W (Liquid) | 300W |
| Power | Dual 8 Pin | Dual 8 Pin | Dual 8 Pin |
| Price | $649 US | $699 US (Liquid) | $699 US |
| Launch | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
The AMD Radeon VII supply should not be an issue and these cards should be available at launch. The AMD Radeon VII seems like an impressive card but the price is the only things that concerns me as it is similar to the RTX 2080. While this is a new card, AMD has confirmed that there will be new CPUs and CPUs coming out in 2019. AMD is also working on ray tracing as well as other technologies and is going to talk about a new ecosystem soon.
Let us know what you think about the AMD Radeon VII graphics card and whether or not you think there will be ample supply at launch.
