Tuesday, July 11th 2017
AMD AIB Partners' RX Vega Manufacturing, BIOS Release Schedule Leaked
Disclaimer things first: take this with a grain of salt, since this hasn't seen the amount of confirmations we'd like. 3D Center has come out with a table that supposedly demonstrates the schedule of RX Vega manufacturing and integration work from AMD's add-in-board partners (which includes the likes of Sapphire, XFX, PowerColor, and others.) Remember that manufacturers receive a suggested reference design from AMD as to how to incorporate their GPUs into an actually operable graphics card, with varying degrees of customization according to the particular partner we're talking about. And this process takes time.
According to the leaked schedule, the BOM (Bill Of Materials) for the required parts to properly manufacture an RX Vega graphics card was to be released sometime in June, with engineering validation tests going through the end of June towards the beginning of this month (July.) Actual working samples from AIB partners are scheduled to be available in the middle of this month, with product validation tests (PVT) stretching towards the beginning of August (you'll remember AMD has confirmed they'll be formally announcing the RX Vega graphics card(s) at SIGGRAPH 2017, which stretches through July 30th and August 3rd.)
However, it seems that AMD's BIOS is only scheduled to be sent to AIB partners on August 2nd, and AIB partners still have no word on launch dates from AMD, which would hamper their ability to move on to mass production of their designs. This may mean a paper launch from AMD, or perhaps a launch with only AMD reference designs being available for order. Remember that final BIOS is a particularly important part on partner's design customizations, since these usually include info on stock AMD-defined power and temperature limits, power states and fan curve, which partners leverage in building their customized cooling solutions.
Source:
3D Center
According to the leaked schedule, the BOM (Bill Of Materials) for the required parts to properly manufacture an RX Vega graphics card was to be released sometime in June, with engineering validation tests going through the end of June towards the beginning of this month (July.) Actual working samples from AIB partners are scheduled to be available in the middle of this month, with product validation tests (PVT) stretching towards the beginning of August (you'll remember AMD has confirmed they'll be formally announcing the RX Vega graphics card(s) at SIGGRAPH 2017, which stretches through July 30th and August 3rd.)
76 Comments on AMD AIB Partners' RX Vega Manufacturing, BIOS Release Schedule Leaked
How long will you torture me ://
JAT
Maybe RX Vega is going to be a hell of a lot faster, but it's also going to be a AIO water cooled 3x8pin planet killer to get there.
Performance depending I'll probably still get Vega, but won't there be a much more powerful competitor from Nvidia at that point??
but I see that in 4 - 8 weeks ethereum wont be profitable to mine, bubble will burst and all those used RX 470 to RX 580, all gtx 1060 - 1070's will hit back on ebay for 1/5th of the price... and then my friends - then I wanna see Vega launch and more so I wanna see AMD to deliver a decent performance/price ratio or esle - noone buy shyte from them...
When Vega will launch, you could wait for Volta, which will be round the corner, because it will bring prices down, and when Volta will be here, Navi will "launch soon". It's a never ending circle.