Tuesday, May 2nd 2017
AMD Says Vega is "On Track" for Q2 2017 Release
During its Q1 reports for fiscal year 2017 (which saw AMD's stock tumbling about, even if this Q1 only considers a single Ryzen sales-month on its accounts), AMD CEO Lisa Su referred that AMD's high-performance Vega architecture is still on track for a Q2 2017 release. The words, specifically, are these: "AMD's "Vega" GPU architecture is on track to launch in Q2, and has been designed from scratch to address the most data- and visually-intensive next-generation workloads with key architecture advancements including: a differentiated memory subsystem, next-generation geometry pipeline, new compute engine, and a new pixel engine."
So yes, AMD confirms what we suspected. This leaves a launch time-frame for Vega products until, at most, the end of June. Confirmation after confirmation, it's still a long time to wait, if you'll ask me, with little to no information in the last few months. But it's better than nothing, and I'd much prefer a real launch with retail availability than a glorified paper launch. Here's hoping Vega answers our questions and our needs. It's been a long time coming already.
So yes, AMD confirms what we suspected. This leaves a launch time-frame for Vega products until, at most, the end of June. Confirmation after confirmation, it's still a long time to wait, if you'll ask me, with little to no information in the last few months. But it's better than nothing, and I'd much prefer a real launch with retail availability than a glorified paper launch. Here's hoping Vega answers our questions and our needs. It's been a long time coming already.
34 Comments on AMD Says Vega is "On Track" for Q2 2017 Release
For a completely new platform been born in a world of hardware and software optimized solely for intel and nvidia product lines is a bit a harsh word IMHO.
Regarding price/performance issues, I'd suggest 2 things:
- The platform is not even been decentely rumored about right now, I find it difficult someone has a decent overview of the actual performance when paired with different HW configs.
- Nvidia monopoly of the last years has brought an insane increase in prices for their higher end cards. The margins are extremely high, expecially if you consider the Titan. AMD has room for an aggressive pricing strategy for the first iteration of the cards. Nvidia BTW, mostly thanks to an outrageous number of fanboys and over leaning press coverages, potentially has amassed the cash to sell at a loss to drown Vega launch and its first few months of life until Volta launch.
The situation is a bit on the uncertain side of the hill to start a flame right now, IMO.It lays in past price/performance points back when ATI was a company on it's own.
But it won't be the cool fuel sipper that Pascal is. And before long Nvidia will be on to the next generation.