AMD RX Vega Custom Card From XFX Pictured- Features Backplate, Dual Fan Design & 8+6 Power Connectors

This has been long overdue, but it’s finally here. Fully custom Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, this particular one, which is the first we’ve seen since Asus debuted its custom design nearly two months back, comes from AMD’s venerable add-in-board partner XFX.

XFX is the very first Radeon exclusive graphics card maker to actually showcase any custom AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics card design to date, and what better way to tease its new creations than on the popular /r/AMD subreddit.  Which is exactly what XFX did. So these photos you’re about to see haven’t been sourced via some precarious leak, they actually come directly from the source.

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AMD RX Vega Custom Card From XFX Pictured- Backplate, Dual Fan Design & 8+6 PCIe Power Connectors

With that said, we actually know very little about these new custom Vega cards from XFX. We haven’t seen this particular design before from the company, so it appears to be a brand new creation developed just for Vega. We can clearly see from the photos that it’s an open air design that features two large fans, a sexy backplate and an 8+6 pin PCIe power configuration.

The power connectors have been placed in quite a peculiar position, bang in the middle between the two fans. This should create an interesting aesthetic if paired with some eye catching, nicely sleeved red PCIe power connectors. It appears that XFX really had no choice, because the PCB is really tiny. Where you see the 8+6 pine power connectors, that’s where the PCB actually ends.

it’s not clear whether this card is a Vega 64 or a 56, although based on the PCIe power pin configuration we’re likely looking at Vega 56, with a dual 8-pin config likely reserved for Vega 64. The red XFX logo on the side appears to be LED illuminated. In terms of IO the card features the Vega standard fair of three full sized DisplayPorts and one HDMI port.

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When and how much still remains a mystery, although with XFX teasing these cards already we’re likely looking at no more than a handful of weeks before we see these on shelves. We will keep you up to date with the latest info as we receive it, so stay tuned!

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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