Early AMD Vega 20 benchmarks found on 3DMARK

Last week, AMD confirmed that they have running 7nm Vega silicon in their hardware labs, with thanks to an online benchmark validation blunder has allowed benchmarks of a graphics card with a 66A0 id to surface online. 

This codename has long been rumoured for AMD’s 7nm Vega 20 graphics chip, with this 3DMARK listing revealing increased HBM2 memory speeds of 1250MHz and a huge 32GB frame buffer, though the performance levels offered by this early sample are similar to AMD’s existing Vega Frontier Edition. 

While some will be disappointed at these performance levels, remember that it is still early days for 7nm Vega silicon, with TSMC’s 7nm process only now entering volume production. Vega 20’s performance is expected to improve in time, and the 1000MHz clock speeds shown below are likely an error in 3DMARK’s hardware analysis tools.