AMD Radeon VII unboxing – the Nvidia RTX 2080 challenger is here!

The AMD Radeon VII is here, in our hands, and in the PCGamesN test rig going through a battery of tests to decide whether or not it can genuinely claim to be the winner in the grand ol’ AMD Radeon VII vs Nvidia RTX 2080 battle royale. We can’t decide that today as we’re not allowed to give any performance number beyond those that have already been published ahead of today. But the Radeon VII release date is scheduled for February 7, and we’ll have our full, in-depth, independent review live as soon as we’re allowed to press that ‘publish’ button. You can, however, watch us lovingly fondle the new graphics card and its press-exclusive packaging in our Radeon VII unboxing video below. And what a lovely package it is. Quite aside from the stark brushed metal matte finish of the new Radeon card there’s also a big ol’ display stand for it. So, once you’ve finished doing all that extreme rendering the Vega 20 GPU and its 16GB of HBM2 VRAM allows you to do, you can slip it out of your PC and proudly display it on its perspex plinth. Its RGB LED perspex plinth, of course.

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