Dunno why they bother with vega if its that late coming since nvidias 1080 and soon titan version will probably be better than vega if not now then through drivers and heck even better cards out by then as the 16nm process matures i mean what will vega be compared/competing against when its out? As always tho AMD are late to the party. They really should try and skip a generation to close the gap or something.
You do realise that nvidia have publicly said that Their Tesla and Quadro cards aren't coming till the end of the year and the recent 'leaks' on Titan say they'll talk about it at something in August..... but will come after Quadro cards are available. Something people managed to miss is that puts Titan (if it's based on Gp100 and/or uses HBM2 as a Q1 2017 product at the earliest.
So what is the point of AMD launching their highest end card at the same time Nvidia launch theirs..... business I guess is the answer, common sense, not being stupid?
There seems to be a lot of confusion, the site that made the claims about a new Titan said Gp100 and Gp102 are the same, the latter just a new version using PCI-E instead of NVlink, but then it kept using only the GP100 codes when talking about times, that same info also contained the "coming after Quadro" mention. There are also other leaks that put GP102 as a closer 480mm^2 part and not at all simply a GP100 with pci-e.
If Nvidia bring a card sooner it could well be a smaller, SP shader only, smaller pci-e GP102 using gddr5x. If so that would be an interesting card.
There is likewise also a rumour that Vega 11(something ignored entirely by Fud) as possibly out this year. There are also many rumours that put Nvidia struggling badly for chips, though vague on the cause(to non subscribers). All we know is 1080 supply sucks, hard, there seems to be very little indication of big 1060 stock being available and more than a few rumours that GP106 is initially going to be a cut down PR stunt to hurt AMD involving only further cut down GP104s because GP106 isn't being mass produced yet. By the end of the year we'll know much of what is true. Currently we can see Nvidia are struggling for supply, if that continues or not is an unknown.
Lets say for arguments sake that Big titan based on GP100 with HBM2 was available in august, Volta isn't due till
2018. That means it will be sold for 18-28 months depending on when in 2018 Volta came out, so AMD shouldn't launch a card in Jan and be available for 12-22 months before Volta is due?
We already know what comes after Pascal Titan/1080ti, Volta, we know roughly when that is and yes if Vega comes out in early 2017 it will be competing with Titan/1080ti and nothing else newer.
