The second hand price of Radeon VII graphics card reached 8000 Yuan ($1225) after it was production discontinued for one and a half year

AMD Radeon VII, the world’s first 7nm process graphics card, released in 2019 in 2 Yuefen, discontinued in the middle of last year. Unexpectedly, it has been discontinued for almost a year and a half, and Radeon VII graphics cards are still very popular in the second-hand market, with the price approaching 8,000 yuan.

In the eBay on an overseas business platform, Radeon VII graphics card prices rising recently, been speculation to 9 million rubles (1,19,600 USD), reached more than 9.4 million rubles, the price of doing to 8000 around the block – when released last year, the new card The domestic price is only 5499 yuan (842 USD).

After the production is discontinued, the second-hand price is still much higher than that of the new card. What is going on? On the one hand, the game performance of the Radeon VII graphics card is not bad, but the recent popularity of mining cards is the key reason. Its 16GB HBM2 memory bandwidth can reach 1TB/s, which is very beneficial for mining.

Radeon VII is still based on the Vega core architecture and continues the basic design and technical characteristics, but it is manufactured with a new 7nm high-performance process, integrated 60 computing units, 3840 stream processors, compared with the previous generation flagship game card Vega 64 and the new generation 7nm flagship.

The Radeon Instinct MI60 computing card has four groups less and 256 stream processors, which is the same as the Radeon Instinct MI50. The core frequency is up to 1.8GHz, with 16GB HBM2 video memory, and the bandwidth is up to 1TB/s.