With this week’s release of AMD’s Radeon VII, we’ve taken a look at performance for both gaming, and professional workloads. While the card traded blows with NVIDIA’s comparable GeForce RTX 2080, there were a few cases where the Radeon VII really came into its own.

Due to time constraints, we couldn’t fit all of the tests we wanted to into our launch articles. Now that the rush to meet the embargo is over, we can look into some of the more quirky aspects of Radeon VII.

When AMD announced the Radeon VII at CES, it was obvious that the card shared many characteristics with its bigger brother, the Radeon Instinct MI50. That’s an enterprise-grade GPU with uncapped double-precision floating-point compute. At the time, it was widely speculated that the VII would inherit this FP64 performance, but that was shot down after we contacted AMD’s head of marketing.