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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

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Sargatanas2511 said:
It's not taking 'so long'. It's coming as soon as they have said for months. December January was when the chip was finalised but there's still taping out, testing, optimisation, drivers and other things to do.
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The tapeout obviously happened weeks before they had the Vega cards available for demonstration. Vega was demonstrated in December, meaning the tapeout was done some weeks before this.

Either something has gone majorly wrong or AMD are waiting for yields/drivers to improve before releasing it.

Also the fact that the RX480 is being refreshed into the RX580 speaks volumes - there should have been a cut down Vega part to bridge the gap between full fat Vega and RX480, instead we have a RX480+100Mhz or whatever in the RX580.
 
Dave2150 said:
Also the fact that the RX480 is being refreshed into the RX580 speaks volumes - there should have been a cut down Vega part to bridge the gap between full fat Vega and RX480, instead we have a RX480+100Mhz or whatever in the RX580.
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I am somewhat confused by that statement, how does a board rename and refresh speak volumes? It's something both major GPU manufacturers have done for many years to get the product naming and numbering in-line with new products that are out, or coming out soon. If anything I would have been surprised if they had no done this, after all RX Vega is going to be aimed at the mid-high to very high end and as such polluting the low-mid range RX480/GTX 1060 with something like a mini Vega would be a lot worse than a re-brand of a product that is still very competitive in it's targeted space.
 
Dave2150 said:
Also the fact that the RX480 is being refreshed into the RX580 speaks volumes - there should have been a cut down Vega part to bridge the gap between full fat Vega and RX480, instead we have a RX480+100Mhz or whatever in the RX580.
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It's because Vega is so incredibly fast that even the cut down version leaves a huge gap!

Poor Polaris... They're squeezing every last ounce of performance out of you...

Poor Volta...
 
Dave2150 said:
Also the fact that the RX480 is being refreshed into the RX580 speaks volumes - there should have been a cut down Vega part to bridge the gap between full fat Vega and RX480, instead we have a RX480+100Mhz or whatever in the RX580.
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Don't forget that we should see a 590 in the range as well, They told us they was not doing a 400 series high-end and that meant no 490, so it could be that we get an RX Vega which is the big card, a 590 which is the cut down Vega and a Vega Nano which is an asthmatic big Vega card, At the end of the day all we can do is wait and see.
 
Dave2150 said:
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TBH there has to be a reason Vega is taking so long. The chip has been done since december/January, either they are waiting for yields to improve (and thus price to drop) or they are having major problems with drivers/features etc.
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It's the normal timeframe. After they got first silicon normally you do a respin to fix problems which takes 2-3 months, then ramping of production plus shipping again takes 3 month at least. It's the same timeframe as with polaris. They had Polaris in november/december 2015 and released in June. Same will happen with Vega, maybe we have luck and it will be around computex. But i don't believe we will have a hardlaunch earlier, maybe a paper launch.
The timeframe for the vega launch was pretty clear with the information we got start of the year, it's just people spreading overoptimistic fud which tried to make people believe they will ship earlier.
 
Dave2150 said:
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TBH there has to be a reason Vega is taking so long. The chip has been done since december/January, either they are waiting for yields to improve (and thus price to drop) or they are having major problems with drivers/features etc.
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@AMDMatt Is there an issue with vaga's production process which is causing a delay on the release date announcement or is the planned release date still for early May?
 
It will be released in the first half of this year. This has been known for a very long time now. Nothing has changed. If July comes and no Vega, then we can talk about AMD having production issues etc. But as it is they are releasing it in the window they claimed they would.
 
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