AMD held a tech summit over the weekend in Beijing. They talked about the upcoming Vega GPUs, and though there wasn’t much new information revealed, they did mention that the there will be variants of the new GPUs, a 4 GB and an 8 GB. One key point that AMD made regarding Vega is the High Bandwidth Cache Controller (HBCC), which will allow better use of VRAM, meaning that even the 4 GB GPU can perform very well. Considering that most games don’t push beyond the 4-6 GB limit, this could be a major performance boost. Additionally, both the variants will use HBM2, and most likely with the same bandwidth of 512 GB/s. Another important piece of information AMD revealed was that Vega GPUs will also may their way to gaming notebooks. Here the compact layout of HBM2 could prove advanta...
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 big...