Sapphire’s RX Vega 56 Pulse will become available on February 12th
Sapphire’s RX Vega 56 Pulse will become available on February 12th
On their official Facebook page, the company has stated that this new graphics card will release on February 12th, delivering to consumers a new custom RX Vega offering. While this unit seems to be designed to offer a lower price than their Nitro variants, it is unlikely that this graphics card will be by any means affordable, as the recent mining boom has seen almost all modern GPUs increase in cost significantly.
Previous leaks of the RX Vega 56 Pulse have listed the specifications below, at this time it is unknown whether or not these specs are 100% accurate. The RX Vega 56 Pulse appears to be a low-cost alternative to Sapphire’s RX Vega 56 Nitro variant, making this GPU’s relatively moderate overclock appear legitimate.
| RX Vega 56 Reference | Sapphire RX Vega 56 Pulse (Leaked) |
Sapphire RX Vega 56 Nitro | RX Vega 64 Reference | Sapphire RX Vega 64 Nitro | |
| GPU Architecture | Vega | Vega | Vega | Vega | Vega |
| Processing cores | 3584 | 3584 | 3584 | 4096 | 4096 |
| Core Base Clock | 1156MHz | 1208MHz | 1305MHz | 1247MHz | 1423MHz |
| Core Boost Clock | 1471MHz | 1512MHz | 1572MHz | 1546MHz | 1611MHz |
| Memory | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 |
| Memory Clock | 800MHz | 800MHz | 800MHz | 945MHz | 945MHz |
Retail listings of this graphics card showcase a dual fan design with a 2×8-pin power requirement, making this unit very similar to Gigabyte’s RX Vega Windforce 2X series, though Sapphire’s model features a shorter PCB to allow some of the GPU’s heatsink to have less airflow restriction.
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