AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

Fishbait · 17 Apr 2017 at 15:49

Radeon RX Vega Final Model and Packaging Spotted in AMD Chinese Ad Campaign.

14nm Vega 10 GPU

4096 stream processors
64 NCUs (Next Compute Units)
2048-bit memory bus
8 GB HBM2
512GB/s Memory Bandwidth
PCIe Gen 3 x 16
225W TDP

Erm..... "The Radeon RX Vega card itself will be coming in a rather slick black, red and silver box, complete with LED lighting on the box itself."

RGB all the things is getting silly :rolleyes:

humbug · 17 Apr 2017 at 15:55

Fishbait said:
Radeon RX Vega Final Model and Packaging Spotted in AMD Chinese Ad Campaign.

14nm Vega 10 GPU

4096 stream processors

64 NCUs (Next Compute Units)

2048-bit memory bus

8 GB HBM2

512GB/s Memory Bandwidth

PCIe Gen 3 x 16

225W TDP

Erm..... "The Radeon RX Vega card itself will be coming in a rather slick black, red and silver box, complete with LED lighting on the box itself."

RGB all the things is getting silly

Interesting, Vega 10 is the little one.

Doom112 · 17 Apr 2017 at 15:56

humbug said:
Interesting, Vega 10 is the little one.

According to Raja and AMD event on march "Vega 11 is slower than VEGA 10".

nashathedog · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:00

Fishbait said:
Radeon RX Vega Final Model and Packaging Spotted in AMD Chinese Ad Campaign.

14nm Vega 10 GPU

4096 stream processors

64 NCUs (Next Compute Units)

2048-bit memory bus

8 GB HBM2

512GB/s Memory Bandwidth

PCIe Gen 3 x 16

225W TDP

Erm..... "The Radeon RX Vega card itself will be coming in a rather slick black, red and silver box, complete with LED lighting on the box itself."

RGB all the things is getting silly

It sounds too me like they are trying to make it look as premium as possible,
I hope it's not too justify a price it doesn't command.

Also isn't this just someone reporting late on what everyone else was reporting on a few days ago?

cainer · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:01

Fishbait said:
complete with LED lighting on the box itself."

im sold!

nashathedog · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:03

Doom112 said:
According to Raja and AMD event on march "Vega 11 is slower than VEGA 10".

I was also under the impression Vega 10 was the faster one but from what I remember Raja didn't say anything about it, In fact he refused to say what was what.

cainer said:
im sold!

That's good you can have my Vega box for a tenner

TNA · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:10

According to the leaked video, the Radeon RX Vega will feature a full fat Vega 10 GPU with 8GB of second generation HBM2 and an all-in-one liquid cooler.

Sold. Just need to see price for performance

humbug · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:11

Doom112 said:
According to Raja and AMD event on march "Vega 11 is slower than VEGA 10".

He never said that, Lisa Sue said Vega 10 was the small one in the 2016 investors conference.

In fact here he is talking about it, its just not in there....

awaybreaktoday · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:31

So which is meant to be the faster one, vega 10 or vega 11?

Jono8 · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:37

Fishbait said:
Radeon RX Vega Final Model and Packaging Spotted in AMD Chinese Ad Campaign.

14nm Vega 10 GPU

4096 stream processors

64 NCUs (Next Compute Units)

2048-bit memory bus

8 GB HBM2

512GB/s Memory Bandwidth

PCIe Gen 3 x 16

225W TDP

Erm..... "The Radeon RX Vega card itself will be coming in a rather slick black, red and silver box, complete with LED lighting on the box itself."

RGB all the things is getting silly

Do we know if Vega cores are going to have faster IPC over Polaris?

It is really hard to work out what performance it will have, even based on those specs without knowing the IPC and core clock. I suppose we can assume it will be at least around twice as fast as the 480 which would take it around 1080 levels or above, but hopefully they have made some ipc gains and it will be at 1080Ti levels. If it is a whole new arc and they have made significant IPC gains then it could be faster.

TheRealDeal · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:44

Jono8 said:
Do we know if Vega cores are going to have faster IPC over Polaris?

It is really hard to work out what performance it will have, even based on those specs without knowing the IPC and core clock. I suppose we can assume it will be at LEAST twice as fast as the 480 which would take it around 1080 levels or above, but hopefully they have made some ipc gains and it will be at 1080Ti levels. If it is a whole new arc and they have made significant IPC gains then it could be faster.

Pretty sure they said upto twice the throughput per shader. I can't remember if that was in comparison to Fury X or GCN as a whole.

opethdisciple · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:49

Fishbait said:
Radeon RX Vega Final Model and Packaging Spotted in AMD Chinese Ad Campaign.

14nm Vega 10 GPU

4096 stream processors

64 NCUs (Next Compute Units)

2048-bit memory bus

8 GB HBM2

512GB/s Memory Bandwidth

PCIe Gen 3 x 16

225W TDP

Erm..... "The Radeon RX Vega card itself will be coming in a rather slick black, red and silver box, complete with LED lighting on the box itself."

RGB all the things is getting silly

That seems to suggest it will be water cooed? I want air coolers!

LoadsaMoney · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:52

It is watercooled, but only from AMD, AIBs can do custom air cooled.

TNA · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:52

opethdisciple said:
That seems to suggest it will be water cooed? I want air coolers!

I am sure there will be. They will just not be silent and not overclock as much (that is assuming they overclock at all)

old gamer · 17 Apr 2017 at 16:56

Hope they don't do the same as the fury where the fury x was only available with the reference aio water cooler, I'm sure my fury tri x cooler would be more than enough to cool a Fury x

humbug · 17 Apr 2017 at 17:30

awaybreaktoday said:
So which is meant to be the faster one, vega 10 or vega 11?

Apparently Vega 11.

N19h7m4r3 · 17 Apr 2017 at 18:01

humbug said:
Apparently Vega 11.

I hope they launch with their biggest card first, that's the one I want.

humbug · 17 Apr 2017 at 18:08

N19h7m4r3 said:
I hope they launch with their biggest card first, that's the one I want.

Your Signature explains why, i just got myself a 1070....

N19h7m4r3 · 17 Apr 2017 at 18:10

humbug said:
Your Signature explains why, i just got myself a 1070....

Until a month ago I was running a Fury X, bugger ended up having some memory die it seems. So been on this since then. Gotta say, I do miss Freesync

Plus the FX was great in video work.

humbug · 17 Apr 2017 at 18:22

N19h7m4r3 said:
Until a month ago I was running a Fury X, bugger ended up having some memory die it seems. So been on this since then. Gotta say, I do miss Freesync

Plus the FX was great in video work.

Yeah, i actually sold my 970 before i could get the 1070, so i ended up lending a 290X from a gaming friend, i just happen to have this Free Sync Screen

It was nice, certainly i noticed the smoothness and lack of any input latency immediately, it does fool slinky and very responsive and i have to say i do miss it now that i no longer have it.

Who knows, maybe AMD will put out a £300 card at least as fast as this 1070, if they do this will be a short stint owning this GPU.