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AMD Arcturus GPU - 8192 Vega cores, no 3D graphics engine, and no idea what the heck it is.

Still, Radeon VII had less than half the shaders and drew 300w of power...

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/what-is-amd-arcturus-gpu

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ajlueke
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It seems likely that Vega will be AMD's Pro/Instinct architecture moving forward, and Arcturus will be the update for that.  RDNA will be used in the gaming space.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-arcturus-vega-gpu-support,39935.html

Also, the Radeon VII is actually vastly more efficient than the review numbers lead on with only a modicum of tweaking.  My Radeon VII was set to 1120 mv for the boost clock of 1.8 GHz.  I can actually push in up to 2.05 GHz without altering the voltage at all, which means those voltages were set really aggressively.

I can actually drop mine to 1000 mv and retain the 1800 Mhz stock clock.  At that voltage, I am pulling about 240 Watts.  The stock voltages really aren't well optimized, probably due to the fact that AMD slapped it together as a gaming card in hurry and shipped it out the door.

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