Thursday, May 11th 2017
AMD Confirms Press Conference for Computex 2017 - Vega is (Almost) Here
AMD today has confirmed a highly-awaited, long-time-coming, almost too-late-to-be-true press conference on Computex 2017. Via email, the company announced their intention to share a save-the-date announcement for AMD's press conference, scheduled for May 31st from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
The conference will be hosted by AMD's CEO Lisa Su and other key executives, and will serve as a venue to "hear more about the latest products and leading-edge technologies coming from AMD in 2017." AMD is apparently "looking forward to providing new details on 2017 products and the ecosystems, both OEM and channel, that will support them." So yeah, this is probably it. A shame about that May 25th Easter Egg with Vega's location on the star charts, but maybe we shouldn't really be complaining, or else AMD might cancel this announcement altogether. And we've waited for Vega long enough, haven't we?
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The conference will be hosted by AMD's CEO Lisa Su and other key executives, and will serve as a venue to "hear more about the latest products and leading-edge technologies coming from AMD in 2017." AMD is apparently "looking forward to providing new details on 2017 products and the ecosystems, both OEM and channel, that will support them." So yeah, this is probably it. A shame about that May 25th Easter Egg with Vega's location on the star charts, but maybe we shouldn't really be complaining, or else AMD might cancel this announcement altogether. And we've waited for Vega long enough, haven't we?
73 Comments on AMD Confirms Press Conference for Computex 2017 - Vega is (Almost) Here
Don't forget kittens, we all belong to the PC MASTER RACE, so play nice!
Plus nvidia ditched double compute on consumer cards for the most part ergo efficiency gained.
Plus the breadcrumbs likely are bull and despite getting blamed they don't usually originate from Amd ,why would they.
When nvidia are releasing something ,then Amd release a tidbit of info not every other day a fairly average bench , how do some of you connect these dots?
But, don't be fooled, that's a business model and a marketing strategy that Manf's have happily tapped into. We get things like this thread, that turn into heated and heated discussions about things we have no idea about, to the point where it becomes polarizing. And at that point one of the two sides now have a dedicated customer :) I think we all argue back and forth as much as those companies go back and forth. OR, maybe Lisa is over an Jen's house right now smoking a stogie with her feet up and a glass of cognac, pitching the next 10 years.
And I think, in my mind, the REAL advancement opportunities for these companies are in Big Data crunching, and of course the "deep learning" autonomous coming in. THIS is where the real directions are. These card's architectures just so happen to also run games, so a double dip.
I know we have Nvidia CUDA farms for data crunching here at work.
I hope I get to a point in life where $525~ is chump change.
I was happy to find my R9 290 for $200 a year ago!
On that note, even if it would beat a 1080 ti, the price needs to reflect that, if AMD thinks beating a 10% is worth 20% more $$, we'll still be crying about the price.
Big Vega should, by the timeline we're currently on, match a 1080 Ti (±5%) for 5-10% less $$. Big Pascal has been out long enough for this to be needed. If they're too late, 1180 will be out, with 1080 Ti performance with 1080 price a tag and it won't be competitive.
Considering how long you've been on TPU, you ought to know better.
Okay, I forgot to brush my teeth this morning, I guess same happens with prescription pills.
I look forward to Vega as I most likely will purchase one to upgrade my 980 from.
RX VEGA 1200MHz 700MHz HBM2 3DMark Time Spy 1.0.
Graphic score was 5721 point.
RX VEGA 1600MHz 900MHz HBM2 may = 5721 x (4/3) = 7628 point.
RX VEGA 1200MHz 700MHz HBM2 3DMark FireStrike.
Graphic score was 17801 point.
RX VEGA 1600MHz 900MHz HBM2 may = 17801 x (4/3) = 23735 point.
Could it faster than your card? check.
This is a rig I personally built and ran 1800x+1070.
www.3dmark.com/spy/1447068
Hopefully it is 1080 level, to provide an AMD choice for what is a fast growing lucrative mid range market. I expect a mix of 1070/1080 performance on average, however. Overclocking ability, cheaper cost to manufacture, lower rate of faulty parts, and bigger chips are all a side affect of that "ergo gain".
That "ergo gain" allowed nvidia dominant control of the gaming laptop market, which continues to grow, as well as being able to put together monster titans and x80tis that dominate the enthusiast desktop space, produce arches like maxwell and pascal that OC incredibly well and are cheap to build, while AMD has to use hugely expensive HBM and water coolers in a vain attempt to keep up.
The less complicated arch is also easier to tweak, allowing nvidia to continue improving capability even when stuck on a transistor size for too long. AMD, OTOH, was hamstrung, with no real answer to maxwell, and falling a full generation behind on efficiency 18 months later.
And of course, that ditching of compute parts that consumers do not use allowed nvidia to make a ton of cash and capture a huge marketshare.
When AMD starts catching up, things will change. Don't get me wrong, I have an a Ryzen coming up in my future and most likely a Vega. I would have bought my Ryzen on launch day but I got tired of waiting and bought a Sandy Bridge Xeon to use as my vm server.
AMD's biggest problem is that they can't get stuff out on time. You can clearly see that Vega was slated for early 2017 and end of May and early June is not early. Most people have already bought a 10 series and those that have a 9 series or 300 series are probably now going to wait until Volta to see which is better and by how much. I have been contemplating buying a 1080Ti because I am tired of waiting.
Many people are waiting to analysis them.
Again....28nm?
Shall I ask the age old question of is a shot sarnie better with bread or toast?
Using clock speeds as a predictor of performance... yeah.