The upcoming Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs have every PC enthusiast waiting eagerly for the next big thing from AMD, and needless to say, it’s quite an exercise in frustration. Speculations are high, whether it’s about performance, or benchmarks or comparisons between AMD and NVIDIA, and among all the chatter, one can’t help but wonder when the next architecture-based components will be released. The Ryzen CPUs are set to launch sometime next month, but we can’t say the same for Vega.
If latest reports are to be believed, AMD might reveal the next series of GPU in May, which suggests that either the products will be revealed in Taiwan at Computex, or shortly before the event. This may be the first time AMD ever launches a new GPU line at Computex, which is one of the biggest PC expos held annually.
The GPUs will utilize the latest 14nm GFX9 core architecture, based on the NCU (Next Compute Engine) design. It will comprise of 4096 stream processors. This will allow AMD to pump numbers better than the Fiji GPU which is based on 28nm GCN 3.0 architecture and comes with the same number of cores.
Tech Specs
| GPU | Vega 10 | |||
| Process Node | 14nm | |||
| Performance | 12.5 TFLOLPS 25 (FP16) TFLOPS |
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| Memory | 16GB/8GB HBM2 | |||
| Memory Bus | 2048-bit | |||
| Bandwidth | 512 GB/s | |||
| TDP | <300W | |||
| Launch | 2017 | |||
| Stream Processors | 4096 |
The latest Radeon Polaris architecture were priced aggressively to compete with their Pascal counterparts, and we can expect something similar with the Vega GPUs as well. The Vega GPUs are expected compete directly with NVIDIA’s high-end graphics cards like the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1080Ti in terms of both price and performance. We can speculate all we want, but to see some real results, I guess all we can do is wait.
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