AMD RX Vega x2 Allegedly In The Works By Asus, To Be Liquid Cooled

Aug 5, 2017 13:52 EDT

A liquid cooled dual GPU Radeon RX Vega graphics card is allegedly in development by Asus and should grace store shelves later this year. We've heard whispers that design work is underway at Asus to put two of AMD's upcoming high-end Vega 10 on a single board.

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A couple of weeks ago we heard that AMD has given its AIB partners the greenlight to take whatever freedoms they wish to design custom graphics cards based on the company's brand new Vega 10 GPUs, including Vega 10 XT (64 compute chip) and Vega 10 XL (56 compute unit chip).

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If what we're hearing is true, Asus will take those design liberties offered by AMD to the absolute max to make an absolute monster of a card featuring two full Vega 10 XT GPUs. With over 50 teraflops of FP16 compute, 25 teraflops of FP32 compute and nearing on 600W this card is set to be the world's most powerful and most power hungry. At this juncture liquid cooling is no longer a luxury but an absolute necessity.

Asus will allegedly only make a limited number of these cards and will charge a pretty penny for each one. The card itself will be a statement by Asus as a means of displaying what they're capable of rather than a commercial product that they expect to sell en mass. In many ways then this card reminds us of the ARES II. Which was a dual HD 7970 graphics card that was the fastest in the world when it came out and the first ever to use liquid cooling.

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