Computex 2018 ⋮ Hardware

AMD Officially Launches RX Vega 56 Nano At Computex 2018 Press Event

Jun 5, 2018

AMD finally launched something that we have been covering for quite some time now – namely the RX Vega 56 Nano. The exact AIB variant that they showcased at Computex 2018 was the Powercolor variant and is something that has been a long time in the making.

AMD showcases Vega 56 Nano (Powercolor) at Computex 2018 Press Event

The exact specifications the card were not revealed at this time but we will update the article as soon as we can confirm. Considering the past trends with Nano however, we are fairly certain that the specifications will be about the same with a lowered thermal envelop. This means that this will be a vega working on a starved TDP and wattage budget and honestly – that’s where the Vega GPU truly shines (Vega M anyone?).

What is interesting is the fact that instead of showing off a reference edition, they showed off the PowerColor variant which is the AIB we heard about before along with Sapphire. It is possible that only a select few AIBs will be rolling this particular variant out.

Nano variants have been pretty successful historically from a performance perspective and this one will probably be no different. Stay tuned for more info.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and Vega 56 Graphics Card Lineup:

Graphics Card	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X	AMD Radeon RX Vega Nano	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Reference	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Reference	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
GPU	Fiji XT	Vega 10	Vega 10	Vega 10	Vega 10	Vega 10
Process Node	28nm	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Compute Units	64	TBD	56	64	64	64
Stream Processors	4096	TBD	3584	4096	4096	4096
Raster Operators	64	64	64	64	64	64
Texture Mapping Units	256	TBD	224	256	256	256
Clock Speed (Base)	1000 MHz	TBD	1156 MHz	1247 MHz	1247 MHz	1406 MHz
Clock Speed (Max)	1050 MHz	TBD	1471 MHz	1546 MHz	1546 MHz	1677 MHz
FP32 Compute	8.6 TFLOPs	TBD	10.5 TFLOPs	12.6 TFLOPs	12.6 TFLOPs	13.7 TFLOPs
FP16 Compute	8.6 TFLOPs	TBD	21.0 TFLOPs	25.2 TFLOPs	25.2 TFLOPs	27.4 TFLOPs
Memory (VRAM)	4 GB HBM1	8 GB HBM2	8 GB HBM2	8 GB HBM2	8 GB HBM2	8 GB HBM2
Memory Bus	4096 bit	2048 bit	2048 bit	2048 bit	2048 bit	2048 bit
Bandwidth	512 GB/s	TBD	410 GB/s	484 GB/s	484 GB/s	484 GB/s
TDP	275W	150W	210W	295W	295W	350W
Price	$649	TBD	$399 ($499 US Actual)	$499 ($599 US Actual)	$599	$699
Launch	2015	2018	2017	2017	2017	2017