Monday, August 29th 2016
Vega Not Before 2017: AMD to Investors
In a leaked presentation meant for its investors, AMD states that it expects to launch the "Vega" GPU architecture no sooner than 2017. The company plans to get it out within the first half of 2017. What makes this decision significant is that the company isn't planning on making bigger GPUs on its existing "Polaris" architecture, and its biggest product is the $249 Radeon RX 480. This leaves the company's discrete GPU lineup virtually untended at key price-points above, against NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080, and TITAN X Pascal, at least for the next five months.
In the mean time, AMD could launch additional mobile SKUs based on the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 chips. The reasons behind this slow-crawl could be many - AMD could be turning its chip-design resources to the various semi-custom SoCs it's working on, for Microsoft and Sony, with their next-generation game consoles; AMD Vega development could also be running in-sync with market availability of HBM2 memory. 2017 promises to be a hectic year for AMD, with launch of not just Vega, but also its "ZEN" CPU architecture, the "Summit Ridge" processor, and APUs based on the CPU micro-architecture.
In the mean time, AMD could launch additional mobile SKUs based on the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 chips. The reasons behind this slow-crawl could be many - AMD could be turning its chip-design resources to the various semi-custom SoCs it's working on, for Microsoft and Sony, with their next-generation game consoles; AMD Vega development could also be running in-sync with market availability of HBM2 memory. 2017 promises to be a hectic year for AMD, with launch of not just Vega, but also its "ZEN" CPU architecture, the "Summit Ridge" processor, and APUs based on the CPU micro-architecture.
65 Comments on Vega Not Before 2017: AMD to Investors
Lucky for them the majority of GPUs bought are in the segments they've released already.
Sucks for those of us that like new and fast hardware, but i would rather they get all the little kinks out of the cards, drivers and CF so we maybe get a worldwide launch with good availability, and that they match the 1080 at least. One can hope
It's unfortunate that it lets Nvidia run the high-end without competition and price checks, but as long as Vega comes out and is able to beat the 1070/1080, then all will be forgotten in time
I was Team AMD but after so much time hyping so much their hardware and fail(Fury OC) after fail(RX480 OC/ PCI-Sig issue) I lost confidence on them.
On the plus side, this hopefully means a dual-Polaris card this year, probably swiftly countered by the 1080 Ti.
I guess you didn't get the memo that many Nvidia cards also exceeded the PCIe slot's 75w spec by much more grievous amounts. Please, you are just here to bash one side.
The RX 480 is a good chip but so are the pascal video cards. The RX 480 brought AMD much closer to Nvidia in power consumption and with similar performance. Considering that they are already setup for DX 12 and Vulkan, I would not call it a fail.
But this damn price stagnation. It sucks man.I doubt it. I get the distinct impression that there aren't enough chips for single GPU cards. They need a surplus of chips to drive the price down to where the dual GPU can be offered for $400-450.
Looks like 980ti is still it.
Still wondering if Nvidia is doing their refresh now on 14nm as AMD has nothing to offer they can't compete with or just crush.
That's cruel. I didn't ask for this. No one asked for this. Something's gotta happen, soon.
Fu @#$@#^@#%
The mid end may be important but even there the 480 isn't on its own (1060). Sucks for upgrading right now. No Zen, no Vega, means both Intel and Nvidia ride the gravy train while we all wait for AMD to get the platform.
edit: now that i think about it, if vega is good enough to counter the next generation of Nvidia cards maybe they will be fine. i dont expect the next gen of Nv cards to widen the gap that much. i may be mistaken though.LOL yes, but the market doesnt wait for anyone..
Volta will be a completely new design with Async compute in mind. Thus explains the lack of new flagship product from AMD.
RTG can put 8192ALU to make a flagship, however without good DX12 applications it will still loose to Nvidia's Pascal in DX11 games.