Image used with permission by copyright holderAfter months of rumors and speculation, AMD finally took the wraps off its new GPU during its keynote at CES 2019 in Las Vegas today. Taking on the latest from both Intel and Nvidia, the new AMD Radeon Vega VII is the “next generation of high-performance gaming GPUs,” and leads the chipmaking industry as the world’s first 7nm gaming GPU for consumers, according to AMD CEO Lisa Su.

　　

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Our CES 2019 Hub: The latest news, hands-on reviews, and moreEverything Nvidia announced at CES: mobile RTX, the RTX 2060, and moreEverything AMD announced at CES 2019: Ryzen 3, Radeon VII, and moreHP Omen 15 (2019) gaming laptop: Our hands-on reviewThe 5 best desktops of CES 2019, for everything from gaming to graphicsAMD’s Radeon Vega VII comes packed with 60 compute units and a clock rate of 1.8 GHz and is built on the second-generation AMD Vega architecture. Elsewhere, it sports 16GB of HBM2 memory at a bandwidth of 1TB a second. When compared to the last-generation Radeon RX Vega 64, the new Radeon Vega VII takes all that power and manages to push out more performance in some of the latest hit games. Running at 4K and on max settings, gamers can expect a 35 percent jump in Battlefield V, a 25 percent in Fortnite, and a 42 percent jump in Strange Brigade.

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