At AMD’s first ever CES keynote Lisa Su has once more professed the red team’s love for gamers by unveiling the “world’s first 7nm gaming GPU” the Radeon VII graphics card – the next generation of AMD high-performance graphics silicon. Just in case it’s not clear AMD is using Roman numerals there, so it’s pronounced Radeon Seven, and is coming February 2019.

But wait, there’s sub-text! This is the second generation of AMD’s Vega graphics architecture, hence the VII – Vega 2. Though because it’s the first 7nm gaming GPU it’s also Radeon 7. Damn, this AMD Radeon VII is just layers upon layers of clever.

The big news is that this is a high-performance graphics card that is capable of delivering gaming performance on par with, or even slightly ahead of, Nvidia’s RTX 2080 in some of the latest games. AMD had Battlefield V and Far Cry 5 results on stage showing a 1fps lead for the new Vega-based Radeon VII, but with the Vulkan-based Strange Brigade you could see a massive 20% performance lead for the AMD card at 4K Ultra settings.