Seems like some conflicting data on the VII.
I don't understand why their gaming performance is between the 2070 and the 2080, but their specs are a lot higher than a 2080.
The link below indicates that the Radeon VII, has twice the memory bandwidth of an RTX 2080, and works on a 4096 bit memory bus, vs 256 on the 2080.
It also uses the same GPU boost frequency as the 2080.
I can only speculate that these benefits, won't affect folding by much.
But the VII has about 30% more cores.
I wonder if this means at least 30% HIGHER PPD than a 2080 (more due to the bonus points)?
If that's the case, the VII should get close to 2M PPD or more...
It also has 30% higher transistor count, 13,2 Bn vs 10.6 on the 2080.
Their gaming performance benchmarks still show the 2080 has better gaming performance, which can indicate that there's an internal slow down (that could use optimization) on the VII.
If you multiply the core count with the frequency of the VII vs the Vega 64,
the VII gets you: 3840 x 1711 = 6.570.240
the 64 gets you: 4096 x 1525 = 6.246.400
Vega 64 is reported to get about 1M PPD, so VII should get a little over 1.1-1.2M PPD, what is in line with said above.
The problem is that the card has a TDP of over 300W. How much of this will be used for folding isn't very clear.
But since an RTX 2080 can do well over 1,2M PPD at a mere 125 Watts, will make this market quite tough for the VII to get into.
https://www.pcmag.com/compare/366379/am ... -gaming-ca