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
RTG is done for 2017. They better get their shits together to start working on their next mid-range GPU. I hope we won't get to see a Vega rebrand someday. That would be extremely sad.
I only hope that this delay will make vega faster. If not AMD shouldn't bother and just release it as it is now. Poor planning I think but still have hope. Maybe AMD came up with some radical improvements? I sure hope they did. Mean time we might get new Fsync2 monitors or something. Not sure what's the plan for Fsync2.
The driver is no excuse, they've had since last November to test it on working hardware, which is longer than normal. RX Vega is postponed due to supply issues, not driver issues. AMD needs a high-volume cheap competitor to GTX 1070/1080 to make some profit, it doesn't look that good for Vega so far.If Vega drags out until next year, then sure.
Remember its current performance id what decides its current market placement. So if now it performs like a 1070 then it will be priced as so. But otherwise i agree with you fully
Fanboys always cry out for missing "optimizations" for AMD, but the truth is that these game "optimizations" only help edge cases, and usually does little to tilt the balance.
The fact is that when RX Vega finally launches, it will have the most "mature" of any recent launch, since AMD have had more time than ever. If the hardware performs unsatisfactory at launch, then it's the hardware. Please stop making up excuses, we know the facts.Vega FE is launched but still not available, and the drivers works just fine for that card. The product is super late to market, even if the drivers were a little immature, getting it to market would still be more important for AMD.
The whole driver excuse is just one simple thing; AMD fans are in denial about Vega's performance, and are claiming to the last hope that software can keep the horse alive. But those who have long-term memory knows this tale repeats every time; it's always about future performance we never see.
can you throw a link so I can catch up?
"The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition graphics card is designed to simplify and accelerate game creation by providing a single GPU that is optimized for every stage of this workflow, from asset production, to playtesting, to performance optimization."
This product is made for game development and testing, of course it doesn't behave differently from other Vega products.Vega have a number of improvements over Fiji, including more computational power, probably small tweaks throughout the design.It does always take a little while for drivers to become mature with every new architecture. But keep in mind that the delays of Vega have given AMD more time to polish their drivers prior to release. What we saw during the Vega FE release was relatively mature drivers, there will of course be some minor tweaks until RX Vega arrives, but we're talking about minor stuff here.
Thanks for you comment pretty valuable :)