The rumor is it works better with AMD cpus and apparently, it really really likes the TR series. I'm skeptical, but we'll see.
Also if you add washers to the heatsink screws contact is much better and it will drop the junction temp by 10C.
Either way, my card has arrived so I'll be benching it...
So apparently AMD has no plans at all to support crossfire with the VII......
https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-radeon-vii
It's at the end of the article.
This shows a terrible ignorance of what an instinct card actually is. First off I’m not a professional, I’m a student. Two, an instinct card costs 5k minimum. It’s probably more like 10k if I’m honest. Hell Nvidia wants 20k for comparible professional cards. Three, it’s not really available to...
For all those people saying they did it so that it doesn't compete with their Instincts. I have to say that it's not like anyone buys AMD cards for enterprise anyway. During 3Q2018 earnings call, Lisa Su confirmed that enterprise GPU sales were about $20M. If you assume an ASP of around $2000...
FP64 support was the major selling point of this card for me and for many other amateur professionals, students and budget conscious researchers for whom Instinct is not a good fit at all. Without it I've lost interest and so have many of the people I've talked to. It went from a sellout hit to...