Friday, March 17th 2017
AMD's Upcoming RX Vega Card Pictures Surface
It would seem that AMD has been making internal, top-secret demonstrations of its upcoming RX Vega GPUs. The company was in Beijing, China yesterday, sowing some thoughts and knowledge on its upcoming Ryzen 5 line of processors. Yet AMD apparently also found the time to tease its upcoming high-performance GPU (which apparently, and unlike it's competitors GPUs, also carries a soul.)
From what can be gleaned from the pictures, this physical manifestation of Vega does away with AMD's Fury X small size (achieved through water cooling). Instead, the coolers seems to be a monolithic piece which totally encloses the card, in an attractive, white and red color scheme with AMD's Vega branding etched on for good measure. We can also glean from the pics that AMD's RX Vega doesn't drop the tachometer feature that allows you to look at the operating LED's to glean the amount of workload on the GPU, with switches that are likely to allow for "OFF/ON" positions for the LED's and for "RED/BLUE" coloring.
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From what can be gleaned from the pictures, this physical manifestation of Vega does away with AMD's Fury X small size (achieved through water cooling). Instead, the coolers seems to be a monolithic piece which totally encloses the card, in an attractive, white and red color scheme with AMD's Vega branding etched on for good measure. We can also glean from the pics that AMD's RX Vega doesn't drop the tachometer feature that allows you to look at the operating LED's to glean the amount of workload on the GPU, with switches that are likely to allow for "OFF/ON" positions for the LED's and for "RED/BLUE" coloring.
94 Comments on AMD's Upcoming RX Vega Card Pictures Surface
Also people shouldn't Underestimate VEGA. This card will surely defeat the 1080ti with EASE. Check out the VEGA Architecture.
High Bandwidth Memory Controller & Memory sub system. Etc., complete overhaul. VEGA probably has only 10% of Fury X inside it the 90%. Is NEW.
Like that is needed 2560x1440 and below...where 99% of people game...
It should be a beast... but I don't think it will beat the 1080ti. Hoping it's closer to it than the 1080 though!
Perhaps this can shed some light on why I believe VEGA is going to be something out of the ordinary.
Based on AMD's comments, every single product AMD releases/released in 2017 and beyond will have Infinity Fabric. But its A LOT more than just a basic Interconnect. A LOT MORE>
AMD Infinity Fabric underpins everything they will make
semiaccurate.com/2017/01/19/amd-infinity-fabric-underpins-everything-will-make/
I also got this info from somebody online that seems to know a thing or two. But you never know really.
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VEGA is something that many don't seem to understand. It's going to revolutionize the PC Gaming industry. And Game Developers will fall in love with it. This info is just half of what we really know about this superior product.
VEGA GPU Architecture - New Design & Developer Friendly
Vega the World's most scalable GPU memory architecture.
* High Bandwidth Cache - Stream data directly on demand
* HIgh Bandwidth Controller - GPU never stops, never stops rendering (Adaptive, fine-grained data movement) (512TB Virtual Address Space)
* High Bandwidth Memory 2 - High end video memory performance
* New Programable Geommetry Pipeline - Over 2X peak throughput per clock
* New Generation Compute Engine - Double Precision Rate is Configurable (512 8-bit ops per clock, 256 16-bit ops per clock, 128 32-bit ops per clock)
Vega versus Polaris in a nut shell,
The new chip design allows for more concurrency in processing non-uniform graphics workloads. Previous designs potentially left large chunks of silicon idle when the GPU was processing smaller operations, bottlenecking the graphics system. The new NCU design though is meant to allow parts of the GPU to work on smaller operations when there is spare capacity, meaning that there shouldn’t be as many wasted, idle parts of the chip. Should benefit DirectX 12 and Vulkan based Games. ETC.,
www.anandtech.com/show/11002/the-amd-vega-gpu-architecture-teaser/4Vega is still GCN. The only really new thing is the high bandwidth cache. That could make the GPU perform really well, but that remains to be seen till the card is out and tested. Will games have to be developed to use the HBC or not?
AMD truly are going next gen.
Now, please stand back and look at this. Does all this sound like a minor update to Polaris/Fiji or something huge? This IS huge. Fiji, while pretty advanced GPU was just a really beefed up Tonga core. It was just more of the same old. Vega will sport a similar shader configuration of 4096 units, but with EVERYTHING new around it. Just saying to all the skeptics what to take into consideration...
The target is excellent performance with far higher efficiency. Look at Ryzen for enlightenment. It's far better than BD, but it's not an Intel destroyer.
Time will tell.
VEGA is for efficiency, but it's also for performance too. Which is why they showed a prototype beating the 1080 by a good margin. There was a reason why Nvidia released the 1080ti, because the prototype VEGA wasn't even at its complete potential.
But of course, time will tell. I just believe AMD will do VEGA right this time, because of Ryzen's success. Keep the positive momentum flowing.
Btw, I've bought a 1700X, I'm not a hater.
Sure mate, a CPU that costs less than half the price of equally performing Intel and only marginally loses to insanely clocked 7700k in games is not a definition of destruction. How!?
Btw, I own Intel, I'm not a fanboy.
There was one interesting saying that someone mentioned about Ryzen. Could have been a reviewer, don't remember, but they called Ryzen a Everything CPU.
...that said, it's still a difference. If you mainly game, and don't need the cores, z270 costs the same or cheaper than the 8 cores...it's also currently stable out of the box. Why spend more if you aren't using more than 8 threads?