The AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot At The High-End
by Nate Oh on February 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTPower, Temperature, and Noise
As always, we'll take a look at power, temperature, and noise of the Radeon VII. While it is customary to look at voltages and clockspeeds, given the SMU changes that was not possible this first time around.
The noise levels of the card look surprising at first blush. Ultimately, what's happening here is the consequence of a very aggressive fan curve, one that invests all potential acoustic improvements of an open-air triple fan card for cooling capability. Going this route makes the fan noise comparable to RX Vega 64's blower.
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HollyDOL - Sunday, February 10, 2019 - link
Please, read what others write before you start accusing others.eva02langley - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
Yeah, when your speaker sound is at 70-80 dB next to you when playing CoD... /sarcasmAMD is going to solve the fan problems. Temps are lower than the RTX 2080, they can play with the fan profile a little bit better.
SeaTurtleNinja - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Lisa Su is liar and AMD hates gamers. This is just a publicity stunt and a way to give a gift to their friends in the Tech Media. This was created for YouTube content creators and not for people who play games. Another Vega dumpster fire.GreenReaper - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
But many YouTubers play games as their content. And people vicariously watch them, so effectively it's letting many people play at once, just for the cost of the video decode - which is far more efficient!Korguz - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
yea.. amd hates gamers.. you DO know AMD makes the cpu and vid cards that are in the current playstation and xbox... right ???Oxford Guy - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Yes, it's difficult to forgot the fiasco that is the Jaguar-based "console"(actually a poor-quality x86 PC with a superfluous anti-consumer walled software garden).
Korguz - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
how is it a fiasco ??the original xbox used a Pentium 3 and Geforce for its cpu and gpu... the 360, and IBM CPU and ATI GPU...
Oxford Guy - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
1) Because it has worse performance than even Piledriver.2) Because the two Jaguar-based pseudo-consoles splinter the PC gaming market unnecessarily.
Overpriced and damaging to the PC gaming platform. But consumers have a long history of being fooled by price tags into paying too much for too little.
eddman - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
Consoles have nothing to do with PC. They've existed for decades and PC gaming is still alive and even thriving.Why do you even care what processor is in consoles?
Oxford Guy - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
False. The only difference between the MS and Sony "consoles" and the "PC gaming" platform is the existence of artificial software barriers.