Monday, May 8th 2017
AMD Vega May Launch with Less Than 20,000 Units Available
Fresh from the rumor-mill comes a report that low HBM2 availability may cripple the Vega launch that is expected to happen in the next few weeks, if a report from TweakTown is to be believed. As far as sources, there isn't much other than TweakTown's news report and their article claiming they had been told this by an "exclusive industry source." Apply your usual grain of salt here vigilant reader, but its certainly interesting speculation, if nothing else. It may turn out to be FUD, or it may turn out to be truth. Only the coming weeks will reveal the truth.
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TweakTown
106 Comments on AMD Vega May Launch with Less Than 20,000 Units Available
Remember the R9 Nano had a GPU clock of 1000mhz, 4096cu's and 4gb of 500mhz HBM, the Fury X had a GPU clock of 1050mhz, 4096cu's and 4gb of 500mhz HBM. 50mhz represented a 15% performance boost? No the 100w of TDP difference did. The nano would flag as a 1000mhz card in 3dmark, but only completed a tiny percent of the tests at that clockspeed, most of the time it spent running 875-950mhz, with dips to 700mhz.
If this SKU fills that same niche, expect a super low (100-150w TDP) and the card to only be running in the 1000-1100mhz range most of the time. There is already rumor of a very similar 3 card range as the Fury lineup.
To sell it at these prices it has to atleast match or even beat a titan or 1080ti.
I dont think we will see a direct 1070-1080 competitor until vega 11 comes out.
Just like to point out, If AMD wanted a card with 1070 performance they would have just rebranded the Fury X. It makes ZERO sense that Vega would be at that performance level unless you are talking about a lower end Vega SKU.
AMD already has a Vega based professional card releasing at 1,500 MHz so we already know they can get much more than 1,200 out of these chips.
Also, Ryzen is not exactly a success. It's more of a mess that AMD pretends they can fix. Ryzen CPUs blow for gaming due to architectural factors (huge CCS-to-CCX latency) and not because of games needing to be patched.
They need driver optimization a lot. Like AMD previous gen R9 Fury X 1 year later performance gain 30% .
Lastly - get used to it. As core counts increase, even Intel will move to multiple complexes because trying to maintain cache coherency across multiple cores chews die space and power.
Here, check for yourself gaming vs non-gaming 1500X at 3.5GHz vs 7700K at 3.5GHz.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/amd-ryzen-5-review-1600x/2/
It's so funny how people constantly have 60fps as some sort of performance level bar, but when games on Ryzen are hitting "just" 120 instead of 140fps on 7700k, the world instantly implodes. It's really so bizarre...
You're again blowing the CCX thing way out of proportions. Not to mention AMD CPU actually has lower latency within each CCX than Intel has across all cores. But no one seems to mention that because dramatizing around out-of-CCX is more interesting...
www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-cpu-review,review-33858-2.html