Wednesday, June 6th 2018
AMD "Vega" Outsells "Previous Generation" by Over 10 Times
At its Computex presser, leading up to its 7 nm Radeon Vega series unveil, AMD touched upon the massive proliferation of the Vega graphics architecture, which is found not only in discrete GPUs, but also APUs, and semi-custom SoCs of the latest generation 4K-capable game consoles. One such slide that created quite some flutter reads that "Vega" shipments are over 10 times greater than those of the "previous generation."
Normally you'd assume the previous-generation of "Vega" to be "Polaris," since we're talking about the architecture, and not an implementation of it (eg: "Vega 10" or "Raven Ridge," etc.). AMD later, at its post event round-table, clarified that it was referring to "Fiji," or the chip that went into building the Radeon R9 Fury X, R9 Nano, etc., and comparing its sales with that of products based on the "Vega 10" silicon. Growth in shipments of "Vega" based graphics cards is triggered by the crypto-mining industry, and for all intents and purposes, AMD considers the "Vega 10" silicon to be a commercial success.
Normally you'd assume the previous-generation of "Vega" to be "Polaris," since we're talking about the architecture, and not an implementation of it (eg: "Vega 10" or "Raven Ridge," etc.). AMD later, at its post event round-table, clarified that it was referring to "Fiji," or the chip that went into building the Radeon R9 Fury X, R9 Nano, etc., and comparing its sales with that of products based on the "Vega 10" silicon. Growth in shipments of "Vega" based graphics cards is triggered by the crypto-mining industry, and for all intents and purposes, AMD considers the "Vega 10" silicon to be a commercial success.
61 Comments on AMD "Vega" Outsells "Previous Generation" by Over 10 Times
At the same time if Fiji had 8GB of VRAM they will also make great mining cards.
I am hoping David Wang can finally get something amazing done to pull the plug on GCN.
My FuryX story taught me FineWine is a fu*cking lie. Don't bank your money on future improvements.
Some people are going to be extremely bitter :laugh:
They can probably be competitive in AI, computing, etc..., but they need to refocus on high end gaming as well, otherwise they will forever loose to Nvidia and basically have less than 20% shares globally, while Nvidia holds 80% Not to mention the high end graphics are the most profitable, that is where the profit margins are the biggest.
Nvidia essentially created its lead with its high end models, which it sold at absurd prices, but there were absurd idiots willing to buy them.
For me the FineVinegar is i lost HBM overclocking due to RTG actively blocking it. I got little feature updates as well as little performance optimization. FineWine my ass.
I think AMD really liked the mining craze - GPU mining is pretty much dead now tho
"Success'' is very relative here. The successes happen in all the places we don't really care about and none of them push (gaming) graphics solutions forward in a meaningful way. HBM? Irrelevant.
The fact they outsell previous gen by 10 times only speaks volumes of how shit Fury was. AMD did time it right - now that GPU mining is dying off again, there are APUs and they are really quite good.
Radeon is everywhere... except where it matters.By now we know that AMD cards don't age well, they just got their optimization VERY late, and there is no sign of that being a repeating event. If you want to reminisce the old fine wine be my guest but it couldn't be further from the truth these days, and there is no sign of it getting better within the GCN architecture.
And yes, of course it outsells Fiji 10:1, Fiji hasn't seen much availability to begin with. But hey, if that's what they need to pat themselves on the back, who am I to argue?
I wonder if it's true that nVidia have got the next Sony console? nVidia must actually be paying Sony to use them if that's the case!