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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1
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Caporegime
Nothing. they just keep paying their debts.
Associate
They do all of their banking at Gringots
Just one thing that a lot of you don't seem to have picked up on about Vega.The Quote in the Slide said "Will Launch Vega for the enthusiast market in H1 2017" Vega is two chips...Vega 10 and Vega 11. Now I cannot remember which is going to be the bigger of the two but isnt the smaller of the two going to be high-end and NOT enthusiast?
Small Vega (RX490?) is high-end and going to be competing against 1070/1080. Big Vega (Fury replacement?) is enthusiast and going to be competing against Titan X(P).
So saying that Enthusiast Vega is launching H1 2017 may still mean that High-End Vega could surface Q1 2017.
Well that is the way my red tinted spectacles see this at the moment with small Vega using GDDR5X and big Vega using HBM2.
Time will tell, it always does.
Man of Honour
Selling good products like the RX480.
I really like the card as they are solid and reliable.
Soldato
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There isn't 50% to be had though, we're well into the realms now of diminishing returns, this isn't 1945 any more, competition or not. Apple and Samsung are in fierce competition, do we get 50% improvements when they release a new phone or are they all pretty much the same give or take the odd hour of battery performance or few pixels of screen resolution?
The gains to be had these days are tiny, hence why companies are focussing more on power saving and TDP than outright performance, we've already pretty much got all the performance we could need, the gains are to be had elsewhere.
Soldato
They do not get loans form sharks but banks, with good rates and 5-20 years agreements.
And they do make money, especially now with the upcoming shipment of few million brand new upgraded PS4s and Xbones, leasing their IP, selling Polaris (which apparently sells very well) and much more.
According to their plan for closing 2016, as per August financial update, they plan to spend $1bn of the profits to purchase their debt, while their newe biggest profitable cash cow, is the ZEN servers CPUs that will start shipping next year. (32C/64T) Hence if you see their report, they are more happy that already closing deals for servers. (and I mean huge servers not 2-3 CPUs).
While IBM is looking to use the ZEN core to their upcoming hardware.
No worries AMD is making money, with good future hence their shares skyrocketed recently.
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They r gonna have revised consoles new gen consoles plus old ones which rn't quiet old actually, plus rx480/470 which sell like hotcakes also upcoming Zen. It would be even better with Vega but Amd at current point doesn't have capacity of doing so many things at once
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How many flops or whatever they are called now does a 480 manage?
I recall something regarding project scorpio, and MS stating they would up their gpu power to 6.0gflops or so, I recall a 6.0 figure anyway, so how does a 480 compare?
I recall something regarding project scorpio, and MS stating they would up their gpu power to 6.0gflops or so, I recall a 6.0 figure anyway, so how does a 480 compare?
Soldato
5.834gflops.
But the chip going to the consoles is different, per console. Much stronger working at 911Mhz, while the RX480 is around at 1300+
Tbh future looks good for AMD. Consider that Freesync is now on HDMI standard, and almost all the newly made TVs from now own, will support it....
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Caporegime
Project Scorpio has an RX 480 + Zen Core APU.
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Excellent, that is good to know, I thought it seemed like it was going to kick in around the same sort of power.
As you say consoles will of course be wired differently, share aspects and so on and so forth, but nice to see it in that region.
I think it's more likely it'll have small Vega running at reduced clocks.
Caporegime
yeah maybe... Whatever it is its one of AMD's newer architectures.
Indeed.
I'm just speculating based off which will be higher performance per watt. Because they'll want to hit the lowest power draw (and therefore heat) for the performance target they want to hit.
Add to that, AMD have a vested interest in sticking whatever arch will have the most longevity and/or be most common on the desktop market, so ports play as nice as possible with the least effort.
Man of Honour
Of course there is not 50% to be had, more like 500% or more.
The GP100 is as much a processor as the 6950X.
It is about time we moved on from this wintel garbage you seem too happy with.
Soldato
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I'm neither happy nor unhappy about it, in fact I couldn't give a flying **** about what Intel do or don't do.
I was just replying to some of the pie-in-the-sky ideas some people have.
Caporegime
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I seem to have stumbled into the CPU section
I seem to have stumbled into the CPU section
Adaptive sync is now supported over HDMI
Huddy got overexcited and said things he shouldn't have, he then retracted his comments and admitted it was his personal views not AMD's and that he was he was speculating.
I can find no mention of any Television manufacturer using Adaptive sync in any upcoming TV's, so to say that almost all TV's made from now on will support it, is a serious stretch of the imagination
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amd-freesync-coming-to-a-tv-near-you
Soldato
OK pass. I only red the 5 related articles about this.
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