AMD Vega 20 finds out in performance tests – offers 32 GB HBM2 memory

After almost five years with manufacturing technology of 28 nanometers, it was in connection with the launch of Polaris that AMD took the step down to 14 nanometers. When the performance circuit Vega was released in August 2017, the same manufacturing technology applied, but on the horizon a shrinkage to 7 nanometers called Vega 20 could be glimpsed.

Videocardz has obtained performance tests for the infamous Vega 20 circuit, where this has been put to the test in 3DMark. The graphics score is remarkably lower than the current Vega Frontier Edition with which the circuit is compared. In terms of numbers, this is a step down from 28,938 points to 26,323 points, corresponding to a decrease of nine percent.

A potential explanation would be the lower frequencies, where the new circuit runs at 1,000 MHz core clock, down from 1,602 MHz for the Vega Frontier Edition. This is probably still an early engineering specimen, as one of the parade numbers for 7 nanometers is said to be higher clock frequencies.

For the HBM2 memory, however, higher clock frequencies are noted where this runs at 1,250 MHz, up from 945 MHz for the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. The amount is also doubled to 32 GB. It is worth mentioning that the card in the test is expected to be intended for machine learning and AI, and not for games.