Nvidia on AMD’s “lousy” Radeon VII: “If we turn on DLSS we’ll crush it.”

After AMD announced the Radeon VII, the world’s first 7nm gaming graphics card, it has royally kicked off. Talking after the event Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, reportedly called the card “underwhelming” and laid into its “lousy” gaming performance and lack of innovation. Jen-Hsun was talking in front of a small group of journalists and didn’t stop at digging out the Radeon VII. Oh no, he went on to vehemently discuss FreeSync, Intel, and PC gaming in general. The Radeon VII is AMD’s second-gen Vega architecture given 7nm form and now squeezed into a gaming card, and team red has promised RTX 2080-level gaming performance from the new GPU. Which is something Jen-Hsun has taken issue with… The new Radeon VII will start shipping on February 7 this year, with a sticker price of $699 - equivalent to a reference-clocked RTX 2080 - with that massive 16GB of high-bandwidth memory likely taking up a huge amount of the cost of the card. This is the company’s latest high-performance GPU, with the AMD Navi graphics cards unlikely to arrive until much further into 2019.