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Is 7nm Vega on the way for gaming?

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I think they said no consumer 7nm Vega, it's all datacentre. Unless yeilds are crazy good and they can afford the drop in margin.
 
Can't see why not if transitioning vega to 7nm give it a significant bump and lets them ramp the clocks up. If it gave them 1080ti performance or better you would think it's a certainty.
 
Gerard said:
Can't see why not if transitioning vega to 7nm give it a significant bump and lets them ramp the clocks up. If it gave them 1080ti performance or better you would think it's a certainty.
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The problem is they could sell that card to the professional market for much more profit, what would you do?
 
Gerard said:
Can't see why not if transitioning vega to 7nm give it a significant bump and lets them ramp the clocks up. If it gave them 1080ti performance or better you would think it's a certainty.
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7nm is an expensive new node and HBM don't help. For the professional market that's fine. They'd probably need to sell 10+ consumer cards to make the same. The economies of that on AMDs current arch just isn't there and they know it. If Navi with GDDR6 is as good as they say (Su said it was back in the lab and better than expected), 1080Ti performance isn't off the table. Anything more is asking a bit too much. It takes about 5 years from design goals to actual silicon and a million things can go wrong in between
 
AMDPower said:
The problem is they could sell that card to the professional market for much more profit, what would you do?
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Maybe make one for that market with more ram and a cut down version for the gaming market? 16gigs plus for pro and 8 for gaming? Could be an option as that's what they did with the frontier editions.
 
Shaz12 said:
AMD crushing Nvidia is a pipedream.
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At the very least they can give Nvidia a swift boot in the swinger's like they did to Intel. Since Ryzen Intel has been basically cobbling together anything they can and slinging it out the door.
 
Shaz12 said:
AMD crushing Nvidia is a pipe dream.
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Intel thought that 8 core CPUs should be $1k+ a couple years ago :p Tech industry is funny, AMD have weathered Phenom II and Bulldozer being below par and have come out swinging. With RTG reigned in I can see a similar situation in GPU...
 
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