Tuesday, April 25th 2017
AMD Confirms Vega is Launching this Quarter
Via Facebook, AMD has confirmed that Vega is nearly here - at least, as nearly here as a "this quarter" can be. This means Vega will launch in two-months time (Q2 extends through the months of April, May and June, after all.) Through a post on its Facebook page, AMD replied that Vega will be coming "when it's ready... And it will be this quarter."
According to previous leaks (and our own deep dive on Vega's architecture), Vega should go a long way towards bridging the power/performance gap between AMD and NVIDIA's GeForce series. It will be the first time since Fury that AMD will have a competitive, high-performance graphics design (expectedly, and hopefully, since no-one likes to buy over-priced graphics cards.) The fact that AMD has teased Vega in two different pieces of media that come out in May (Arkane Studios' Prey, which comes out on May 5th, and Alien: Covenant, which also comes out during the month of May.) I've previously posited that AMD wouldn't tease Vega's launch alongside one of the most promising games of the year without giving us the chance to power it through Vega come launch day, but as Prey's release date approaches and there is no more information on Vega (much less an announcement), it's looking increasingly likely that we'll have to wait until we can see that universe in all of its Vega-rendered glory.
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According to previous leaks (and our own deep dive on Vega's architecture), Vega should go a long way towards bridging the power/performance gap between AMD and NVIDIA's GeForce series. It will be the first time since Fury that AMD will have a competitive, high-performance graphics design (expectedly, and hopefully, since no-one likes to buy over-priced graphics cards.) The fact that AMD has teased Vega in two different pieces of media that come out in May (Arkane Studios' Prey, which comes out on May 5th, and Alien: Covenant, which also comes out during the month of May.) I've previously posited that AMD wouldn't tease Vega's launch alongside one of the most promising games of the year without giving us the chance to power it through Vega come launch day, but as Prey's release date approaches and there is no more information on Vega (much less an announcement), it's looking increasingly likely that we'll have to wait until we can see that universe in all of its Vega-rendered glory.
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www.docdroid.net/PucBhT9/gdc2017-advanced-shader-programming-on-gcn.pdf.html#page=35
Now why is efficiency important? Since both vendors are able to create GPUs of roughly the same size, and GPUs are more or less going to struggle over 250W, efficiency becomes the deciding factor for performance, and is the end also price. GP102 and Vega10 are GPUs of the same size, so if Vega are to come close in performance, it would have to be very close in efficiency. Right now the efficiency-gap between Polaris and Pascal is massive, and Vega would have to cut off >80% of that gap to even be close to competing. This is why it's very unrealistic that Vega will even compete in the high-end.
If RX 580 had the same thermals as RX 480 it would be fine, but it sacrifices a lot of efficiency for a very minimal gain, any reasonable person understands this. And the OC potential is lower for RX 580, since it's essentially just an overclocked RX 480.
And no. I don't need to look beyond my stupid rx 580 cause it's just the comparison of the2 480 and 580 no other. Period. you compare those 2 and that is what I wanted to share. You are locked with NV(envy) of the 2. so please. please don't tell me how do I live already know that :)
www.3dmark.com/spy/1544741
Keep in mind the clocks of the final product might be higher than 1200 MHz.
For the slow, me apprently, tell me why that link does anything more than what was previously linked?
Lower memory bandwidth than Fury X is actually quite possible. Not only did Fury X fail to utilize all it's bandwidth, Vega will also employ slightly better compression and various other improvements to reduce bandwidth requirements.
BTW: Do we know the exact date of the Vega release? From what I've read so far it's not that great. I hope they are wrong. I'm just waiting for Vega it would be not so good if I get to be disappointed. :/