Monday, December 12th 2016
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AMD "Vega" Demoed in Sonoma, California
AMD's next-generation high-end graphics card, based on the "Vega" architecture, was showcased at an event in Sonoma CA, earlier this week. While the architecture is being debuted with the Radeon Instinct MI25 deep-learning accelerator, a prototype graphics card based on the silicon was exhibited by the company, showing Vulkan API gaming.
AMD was pretty tight-lipped about the specifications of this prototype, but two details appear to have slipped out. Apparently, the chip has a floating point performance of 25 TFLOP/s (FP16), and 12.5 TFLOP/s (FP32, single-precision). On paper, this is higher than the 11 TFLOP/s (FP32) of NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal. The other important specification that emerged is that the card features 8 GB of HBM2 memory, with a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s. This, too, is higher than the 480 GB/s of the TITAN X Pascal. It remains to be seen which market-segment AMD targets with this card.
This article was updated on Dec 15 to accommodate AMD's request to remove all info regarding the demo system, the shown game and its performance, which has been put under NDA retroactively.
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AMD was pretty tight-lipped about the specifications of this prototype, but two details appear to have slipped out. Apparently, the chip has a floating point performance of 25 TFLOP/s (FP16), and 12.5 TFLOP/s (FP32, single-precision). On paper, this is higher than the 11 TFLOP/s (FP32) of NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal. The other important specification that emerged is that the card features 8 GB of HBM2 memory, with a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s. This, too, is higher than the 480 GB/s of the TITAN X Pascal. It remains to be seen which market-segment AMD targets with this card.
This article was updated on Dec 15 to accommodate AMD's request to remove all info regarding the demo system, the shown game and its performance, which has been put under NDA retroactively.
120 Comments on AMD "Vega" Demoed in Sonoma, California
Plus my 1070 is overclocked pretty good, nearly 2ghz on the core and +500 on th memory. (with the core barely budging from that clock)
Hype train or not. They can´t release statements and be off by 50%.
So if they try to compare it with the 1080; you can be sure it will be better than the 1070.
They also are not going to release something that competes with their own Fury. Else they couldv´e just re-released the Fury with the new Ramtype???
=> What´s real important here is that is becoming very clear that AMD is back on par with it´s competitors. This means pricedrops for everyone and some healthy challenges to intel/NVidia. Something we should all agree on is a good thing.
New decent games will have DX12.
Not sure what else is on the way... It... it really doesn't work that way.
Their actions more than support my claim.