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
I dont know how to explain it clearly but just look at previous generations a see how much you can push them (Nividia/AMD), it could be terrible yields from the newer node, so thats why there are not much RX480.
This had better be out the first quarter of 2017.
And the spec allows for spikes. It doesn't allow for continuous overdraw.
www.extremetech.com/computing/234790-amd-delays-next-gen-vega-confirms-zen-on-track-for-q1-2017
With GP102 already on the market too, the gap in performance is as wide as it's ever been, nVidia are no doubt all about Volta at this stage too, and with Pascals apparent competition still half a year away at least.