Monday, June 27th 2016
AMD "Vega 10" GPU Crosses a Development Milestone
AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) chief Raja Koduri was in Shanghai last week to meet with one of the design teams of the "Polaris10" and the upcoming "Vega10." He tweeted that development of "Vega10" had just crossed a milestone, although it's a long way to go before you can see it. The 5th generation Graphics CoreNext architecture, and successor to the upcoming "Polaris" architecture, "Vega" promises a higher performance/Watt than "Polaris," which in turn boasts of a large energy efficiency leap over its predecessor.
One of the most notable derivatives of "Vega" is the "Vega10," poised to be a performance-segment GPU, which will make it to the market alongside "Vega11," a larger enthusiast-segment chip. The Vega10 is rumored to feature 4,096 stream processors spread across 64 compute units, and is expected to be a competitor to NVIDIA's GP104 silicon. The larger Vega11 could compete with larger chips based on the "Pascal" architecture, such as the GP102.
One of the most notable derivatives of "Vega" is the "Vega10," poised to be a performance-segment GPU, which will make it to the market alongside "Vega11," a larger enthusiast-segment chip. The Vega10 is rumored to feature 4,096 stream processors spread across 64 compute units, and is expected to be a competitor to NVIDIA's GP104 silicon. The larger Vega11 could compete with larger chips based on the "Pascal" architecture, such as the GP102.
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I know that feeling all too well. But I've stuck out for so long and my GTX 670 still manages playable framerates at basically everything I throw at it. The Borg claim that resistance is futile. I'd say that you are better than that :rockout:
Not the most informative piece of news, I have to admit.
I would also love ot make use of features like VCE/Nvenc and DSR/VSR which are all relegated to gpu's some gens beyond mine.
It'll have eleventybillion shaders, all of which are running at warp 9.9. It'll do 7-dimensional gaming faster than your toaster, and run for 7 years at 100% on a cellphone battery. Also, it cures cancer and beats up superman. And all of that for just $4.99! Order now!!!
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-pulls-radeon-vega-launch-to-october.222403/
If Vega were to be released in October, then QA samples should be out by now, which has not happened yet...
I'm looking forward to Vega too, but what was the source of this "report"? Take it with a grain of salt, or be subject to the consequences of your own wild expectations.
BTW, BTA's source is listed below the post he wrote. Whenever there is a "source", he lists it like that.
Sorry, rtwjunkie, not targeting you specifically. The expectations comment was more to the wider audience at large. :)
They've also moved Zen to 2017 and I had one of their developers tell me Zen was never planned to come out in 2016, despite several presentations bearing AMD's logo I showed him.
Imho, they're going for the rumour mill, because they can retract anything afterwards.
Edit: Of course, I could be wrong. But that's the impression they give me lately.
A few days ago we got information that Vega is soon finishing development. So the final design is not even taped out yet, which means that QA samples are at least 3 months after tape out, and the finished product is 6-9 months away. Remember that GP104 was finished in development and taped out in ~June 2015.
AMD have something cooking that beats a 1080 and it's only 4Gb.
I've been seeing a few FS benches come through like this one in Icestorm.
www.3dmark.com/is/3839964?_ga=1.71611927.507117041.1462523653