Stefan Mileschin

Should be available on March 28th

Powercolor has now officially announced the upcoming Red Dragon Radeon Vega 56, revealing a bit more key information as well as the availability date.

Although we have already seen it leaked earlier, we now have more detailed information. First of all, we will get on with the boring details which include the same Vega GPU with 3584 Stream Processors and a 1478MHz GPU Boost clock - which is only a few MHz higher - so we suspect that the GPU base clock is somewhere around 1140MHz. It still comes with 8GB of HMB2 800MHz-clocked memory on a 2048-bit memory interface.

According to details provided by Powercolor, the new Red Dragon Vega 56 will need 8-pin and 6-pin PCIe power connectors, which is different from two 8-pin connectors we saw on all Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics cards. We are not sure if this is a simple mistake in the specification list or Powercolor somehow managed to push the power consumption low enough to make do with 8+6-pin power connectors.

This might have something to do with the custom design as Powercolor shared a few more details but hopefully, we will see more soon. The Powercolor Red Dragon Vega 56 also uses a custom shorter PCB and has a triple-fan dual-slot cooler.

https://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/4...dragon-vega-56