AMD Vega launch brought forward to October, says report

[QuorTek]

They probably was ready for it anyway.... so I guess I am going to get a premium AMD Vega?

or wait and see if they all head into a price war.

[jigger]

When the chart first got shown Vega seemed to me that it would the end of this year. If the spec's are true this should be a bit of a monster.

[kalniel]

When the chart first got shown Vega seemed to me that it would the end of this year. If the spec's are true this should be a bit of a monster.

What Vega specs do you know?

[jigger]

What Vega specs do you know?

Just the one's revealed to me. Why do you ask?

[kalniel]

Just the one's revealed to me. Why do you ask?

Because I'd like to know more, obviously! So care to share what specs have been revealed to you?

[jigger]

Because I'd like to know more, obviously! So care to share what specs have been revealed to you?

You would like to know more! What do you know already?

[kalniel]

You would like to know more! What do you know already?

Nothing except it's using HBM2. But you apparently know more if you're saying if the specs are true it should be a monster - just using HBM2 isn't enough.

[sykobee]

1. AMD had not said anything about when Vega was going to launch, apart from that picture that puts Vega maybe at the end of Q4 this year. And this is just a rumour about something nobody knew anything about, so nothing has changed (it's still Q1 2017), or nothing has changed (it's late 2016), or nothing has changed (it's October!).

2. Launched ... I see this a lot when Nvidia pre-announce a new card. The correct term is 'announced' or 'revealed'. Once it's reviewed and available in shops, we can say it's launched. If it's reviewed and barely available, then we can say it's paper launched. And the whole Founders Edition thing is ringing bells about mass availability. I trust Hexus will use the correct price ($699) in the review and perf/$£ graphs in their review.

3. We don't know if Polaris 10 is going to use GDDR5 or GDDR5X. As it's upper performance speculation is around 1070 level, GDDR5 may suffice. Maybe AMD will similarly have GDDR5 and GDDR5X SKUs. They've said pretty much nothing.

4. I don't know what 3D Centre is smoking with that chart putting Polaris 10 (2560 shaders, likely >1.5GHz clocks) against a 1280 shader unit from Nvidia. The top Polaris 10 should be trading blows with the 1070.

[jigger]

Nothing except it's using HBM2. But you apparently know more if you're saying if the specs are true it should be a monster - just using HBM2 isn't enough.

You know more than your letting on I've got my eye on you.

[SvDKILLSWITCH]

Wait, so since when was Vega 11 the "big" version of Vega? Polaris 10 is the big version of Polaris with Polaris 11 being the small version, so why has this suddenly swapped for Vega?

I was always under the impression that the Polaris/Vega 10 chips were the bigger variants of each architecture in the same way that GM200 is the bigger version of the Maxwell architecture.

[lumireleon]

am usually left at a dead end, which is better OpenCL or CUDA when using mid range GPU video rendering on PremirePro, Cinema4D, Maya and 3DSmax? I do understand AMD only comes with OpenCL while Nvidia cards have both CUDA and OpenCL.

[kalniel]

Wait, so since when was Vega 11 the "big" version of Vega? Polaris 10 is the big version of Polaris with Polaris 11 being the small version, so why has this suddenly swapped for Vega?

I was always under the impression that the Polaris/Vega 10 chips were the bigger variants of each architecture in the same way that GM200 is the bigger version of the Maxwell architecture.

They explained this a while back - the numbers are just chronological - first chip is 10, second is 11 etc. They could release a big Polaris after the little 11 and it'd be called Polaris 12.

[gupsterg]

From what I understand yes the numbering is chronological, a) from AMD videos floating on web b) rumors, but 11 is the notebook / lower end chip and 10 is the desktop / higher end chip; for the segment of market they're aimed at.

Then I have good reason to believe there is 10 XT, therefore would assume there is 10 Pro and possibly same thing with 11.

Vega other than being a larger die / successor to Fiji plus being HBM 2 nothing else has been rumored so far IIRC.

[Sunderas]

My body is ready!

Hahaha! Good one.

[kalniel]

Some other bloke has posted that it's Polaris that's coming in October (ie, 'delayed') rather than Vega. New article Hexus?

http://www.overclock.net/t/1599305/v...#post_25149678

[jag272]

Some other bloke has posted that it's Polaris that's coming in October (ie, 'delayed') rather than Vega. New article Hexus?

http://www.overclock.net/t/1599305/v...#post_25149678

Of the two possibilities I find this much more likely, unless AMD somehow secured a very good deal on access to the first HBM2 yields. Releasing Vega so soon after Polaris would be a very surprising move. Admittedly if they managed it, it would give them a nice long lead on HBM2 until Nvidia presumably release mid-2017, which paired with some strong cards to compete with the 1070/1080 which seem to get beating out by fury X on the Crazy 4k ashes benchmark could make AMD a real killing, but it simply seems far too unlikely that Vega is ready at this point.