Tuesday, June 19th 2018

AMD Radeon Vega 12 and Vega 20 Listed in Ashes Of The Singularity Database

Back at Computex, AMD showed a demo of their Vega 20 graphics processor, which is produced using a refined 7 nanometer process. We also reported that the chip has a twice-as-wide memory interface, effectively doubling memory bandwidth, and alsomaximum memory capacity. The smaller process promises improvements to power efficiency, which could let AMD run the chip at higher frequencies for more performance compared to the 14 nanometer process of existing Vega.

As indicated by AMD during Computex, the 7 nanometer Vega is a product targeted at High Performance Compute (HPC) applications, with no plans to release it for gaming. As they clarified later, the promise of "7 nanometer for gamers" is for Navi, which follows the Vega architecture. It's even more surprising to see AOTS results for a non-gaming card - my guess is that someone was curious how well it would do in gaming.
The device ID 66A0 has been never seen before and is sufficiently far away from Vega 10 (687F) to indicate that AMD treats Vega 20 as a really new product and not as a minor revision. We expect Vega 20 to be used on a Radeon Instinct card first, with 32 GB of HBM2 memory and 4096 shaders, a professional workstation card called "Radeon Pro Vega 20" could also be possible, as indicated by other leaks, but I'm skeptic whether AMD really wants to put the "20" from the GPU codename into the official marketing name, going against what they used for "Vega 64".
The second card listed is Vega 12, for which very little is known. Its device ID 69A0 is also from a new, unused value range. It is rumored that Vega 12 is targeted at lower-end, mobile markets, possible to offer an alternative to Polaris. We also wouldn't be surprised to see improved power management on Vega 12, to cater better for mobile devices, which require higher energy efficiency. Please note that Vega 12 does not indicate the number of CUs (like on Vega 64 for instance), but rather represents the internal GPU codename, like Vega 10.
Sources: Vega 12, Vega 20
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51 Comments on AMD Radeon Vega 12 and Vega 20 Listed in Ashes Of The Singularity Database

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T4C Fantasy
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John NaylorNot since the 600 series .... there's enough industrial espoinage going on that each side knows whats coming out months before the actual release. With the 700 series, many pundits noted that the early leaked specs for the 780 didn't quite live up to the pre-release specs but almost exactly matched the early 770 specs. When AMD launched their marketing campaign for th next generation cards, boom out of nowhere came the 780 Ti to rain on AMDs parade... which oddly enough lined up perfectly with the early leaked 780 specs. Not seeing anything to challenge what became the 980, they kept the 980 Ti on the shelf again. I'm quite sure that when the 1180 / 280 whatever is released, it will not be their top card in the series.
What i said still stands the way they make the chips off the line the biggest are off first gv100 gp100 are examples

Gk110 780 the chip was cut but still the largest chip
The only one that applies here is maxwell where gm200 came later but it was still made first just never released until later.

However i never said 1180 would because gv100 and titan v are already out and are top chip xD
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