 Linus Tech Tips at CES 2019 is brought to you by dbrand. The dbrand grip and the dbrand prism are the way to protect your phone You can check them out at the link in the video description. So we're here at AMD where I got completely Blindsided by their announcement of a new graphics card And I'm not talking like I got hands-on with a very you know early unit of something like I did way back when with the original Vega 64 where it still had like Development modules built on to the back of it and stuff. I'm talking they are ready to launch this thing February 7th, they've got pricing. It's six hundred and ninety nine dollars and the performance Actually looks compelling and he went from not even really being competitive with Nvidia's last gen To pulling up and being like yeah, we want to compete with their current gen RTX 2080 and we're gonna do it with this. So this is the Radeon Vega 7 That's with a V and two I's like Roman numerals because it's kind of also like Vega 2 and they have made improvements Across the board first of all, they've moved to a 7 nanometer manufacturing process on the GPU Which means a performance benefit and a cost savings So this die they've actually got the die right here on display is a mirror I think it was a 331 millimeter squared compared to 495 for Vega 64 and even though it's smaller they are claiming it is about 25% faster than Vega 64 at the same power So it's about a 300 watt board speaking of which the next improvement is to the cooler It's kind of shocking actually now there might be some frame rate throttling here or something But still this is the division 2 running at 4k on this card and like sticking my head into the system The thing is whisper quiet now Obviously this type of an air recirculation device is not ideal for small form factor computers But for larger desktops like this, it means less fan hum and more just enjoying your gaming experience Next up higher clock speeds. So this thing runs at 1.8 gigahertz with 60 CUs Which actually does give us a pretty good idea of where performance is gonna end up We are talking 1440p to 4k gaming depending on the title at 60 plus frames per second Even as high as like a hundred frames per second for slightly older or less demanding even triple-a titles now the next big improvement they have moved to 16 gigs of HBM to memory that is running at a whopping one terabyte per second of bandwidth This is not only gonna be beneficial for gamers because there are actually games out there that can suck up more than 8 gigs of RAM But it's also gonna be great for content creators now double precision compute performance is still going to be crippled compared to a workstation card But there are a lot of professional workloads that don't actually rely on that and Vega was already a Content creator powerhouse. So I am personally very excited to see what it can do there. I think that's pretty much all I have to say about it for now other than just you know what? Thank you Thank you AMD because Just like we need someone keeping Intel honest We need someone keeping Nvidia honest and frankly they haven't really had a competitor. No offense. Also AMD For the last couple of years in the graphics space. So this is a massive relief. I think for gamers everywhere Speaking of a relief for gamers everywhere I mean lots of gamers also have phones and it's a big relief to have protection for your phone Isn't it? This video is brought to you by dbrand. dbrand's grip keeps your phone safe It's got super clicky buttons And of course you can customize it to look however you want because it's dbrand baby Come on and their prism screen protectors offer an Unbelievable amount of impact resistance in a super slim form factor and with easy application You can check out both of them at the link in the video description. So don't miss any of our CES 2019 coverage you guys we're gonna see you at the next booth. Make sure you're subscribed so you do not miss it Bye Yes, yes, I'm still here we get the joke