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
Nvidia acts as if AMD doesn't exist. They are literally competing against themselves: And their GPUs happens to scale very nicely each generation compared to CPUs hitting a ceiling.
I wish they would have just given up and gone with GDDR5X for now...
The original design team that worked on GCN was entirely Canadian. Their current graphics design team is entirely in China. Notice how since 2012, that's back when they released their first GCN based cards, AMD's graphics chips haven't improved in any significant way.
It will be fascinating to see how good Frontier will become once rasterization, Power usage, and other features are fixed/enabled. Frontier literally just seems to be an unready product that was launched so AMD could claim they launched in H1.
September is when RX Vega will truly be ready, and it better deliver...