Nvidia Will Still Remain As The Dominant GPU Company

In AMD’s keynote yesterday, they made only one product announcement: The Vega VII. It retails for $699 US and is built on AMD’s new 7nm process. The specs seem to be impressive, with a whopping 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth (compared to 616 GB/s on the RTX 2080 Ti), 16 GB of HBM2 (compared to 11 GB on the RTX 2080 Ti), and the clock speed of 1800 MHz (compared to 1350 MHz on the RTX 2080 Ti). However, there are slightly less cores (3,840 compared to 4,352 on the RTX 2080 Ti). The Vega VII also has a single-precision floating-point performance of 13.8 TeraFLOPS. AMD stated that the Vega VII were designed to compete with the RTX 2080 or the GTX 1080 Ti which cost $799 and $699 respectively. The RTX 2080, though it’s $100 more, supports Ray Tracing while the Vega VII doesn’t. The GTX 1080 Ti can be disregarded because Nvidia will discontinue the production of it in a few months. In the end, although AMD has the edge when it comes to manufacturing process, Nvidia will still remain as the dominant GPU company.