Radeon VII
The Radeon VII is AMD’s 16GB graphics card with a 295W board power rating, built on the Vega 20 architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet and gaming and productivity benchmarks. No board versions are in stock right now, but the specs and benchmarks below still apply whenever it returns to retailers.
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Gaming performance
Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.
Gaming scores are normalised performance indexes derived from Tom’s Hardware’s published GPU benchmarks. Performance per dollar and per watt are our own calculations on top of that data.
1080p Gaming
1440p Gaming
4K Gaming
The Radeon VII scores 33.5 at 1080p, 21.2 at 1440p, and 17.8 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.
Performance-per-dollar rank among all GPUs with live pricing
Value at 1080p
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Value at 1440p
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Value at 4K
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Benchmarks
Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.
3D & gaming
Render
Radeon VII availability
Live retailer stock for this model.
Currently out of stock
None of the board versions of the Radeon VII are in stock at the retailers we track right now. Prices refresh daily, so check back — or compare in-stock alternatives below.
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The reference Radeon VII measures 280 mm long.
Performance
- Boost clock
- 1800 MHz
- Base clock
- 1400 MHz
- Shader cores
- 3,840
- Compute units
- 60
- Texture units (TMUs)
- 240
- Render outputs (ROPs)
- 64
- RT cores
- 0
Memory
- VRAM
- 16GB HBM2
- Memory bus
- 4096-bit
- Bandwidth
- 1024 GB/s
- Memory speed
- 2 Gbps
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
GPU die
- Architecture
- Vega 20
- Process node
- TSMC N7
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Die size
- 331 mm²
- Transistors
- 13.2 billion
- Generation
- Radeon VII
Power
- TDP
- 295W
- Recommended PSU
- 650W
- Power connectors
- 2 8-pin
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680 × 4320
- Max displays
- 4
- HDCP
- 2.2
- Outputs
- 1 HDMI 2.0b, 3 Displayport 1.4a
- PCIe interface
- PCIe 3.0 ×16
APIs & software
- DirectX
- 12 (12_1)
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Shader model
- 6.5
Video encoding & decoding
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | Supported | Supported |
| H.265 / HEVC | Supported | Supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not supported | Supported |
Encoder: VCE 4.1 · Decoder: UVD 7
Features
- Upscaling
- FSR 2
- Also runs
- XeSS
- Resizable BAR
- No
Physical
- Reference length
- 280 mm
- Slot width
- 2 slots
- Released
- 2019-02-07
- MSRP
- $699.00
3,840 shader cores feed a 4096-bit memory interface delivering 1024 GB/s of peak bandwidth. Compare the Radeon VII against the full GPU lineup on the full graphics card rankings.
Local AI performance
What the Radeon VII can run on your own machine, and how fast.
Largest model it can run (8K context)
- Q4 (the usual choice, near-original quality)
- ~20B
- Q8 (closer to original, half the model size)
- ~12B
- FP16 (unquantised, for training and research)
- ~6.6B
Parameter counts the card holds with room for an 8K conversation, counting the model weights plus its attention cache. A longer conversation needs more memory, so it lowers these figures.
Speed & value
- Speed, 8B model at Q4
- 141-166 tok/s
- Memory bandwidth
- 1024 GB/s
- Price per GB of VRAM
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Generation speed tracks memory bandwidth, because every word produced reads the whole model from memory. Shown as a range.
Models that fit, at Q4
| Model | Size | Memory needed | Est. speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT Oss 20B | 20.9B | 13.2GB | — |
| Granite Code 20B | 20.1B | 13.7GB | 56-66 tok/s |
| Starcoder2 15B | 16.0B | 9.7GB | 71-84 tok/s |
Popular models small enough for this card at Q4, one per family. Speed is left blank for mixture-of-experts models, where a bandwidth estimate is not reliable enough to publish.
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