AMD Radeon Vega GPU Prices Revealed, Starts At $399

The Radeon RX Vega series of graphics cards are meant to take on Nvidia’s own 10-series offering from last year. Now that the prices and specs of these GPUs have been revealed, gamers will have a better idea of what they can expect from the units. So far, it seems that barring any kind of last-minute changes when the cards come out, the playing field is pretty level in terms of performance.

The base model for the RX Vega series in the form of the Vega 56 only costs $399, ExtremeTech reports. the 56 refers to the number of CUs that the card has. The more expensive Vega 64 costs an extra $100, which is going to have air-cooling or liquid-cooling.

Packaging and deals with regards to the cards are reasonably appealing as well. For example, the liquid-cooled 64 variant can come as part of a bundle that includes two free games, Wolfenstein II and Prey. There are also deals that involve a $200 discount for a Samsung monitor or a $100 discount on a motherboard package.

On the other hand, these deals would only really be helpful to those who are planning to build an entirely new PC rig from scratch. As such, gamers with existing units that they are already happy with and only want to upgrade the GPU might want to simply get the Vega card of their choice.

With regards to performance, the 56 variant comes with an 1156MHz base clock and 410GB/s memory bandwidth, along with 8GB of HBM2. As for the 64 card, gamers can expect 1406MHz base clock and 484GB/s of memory bandwidth for the water-cooled model.

It’s worth noting that these are just paper specs and that actual performance numbers are still yet to be revealed, PC World reports. AMD is assuring gamers, however, that the cards can compete with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080.