AMD announce their RX Vega series of GPUs

[WYP]

AMD announce their RX Vega series of GPUs, a series that will likely replace AMD's ageing R9 Fury lineup.



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[AlienALX]

Well that's disappointing. Having said that it would be far more disappointing if they made loads of noise about it and then Nvidia sniped them like they always do.

I kinda like the "new" "quiet AMD". They look a lot less stupid than they used to.

If you have expectations for anything you will be disappointed. It's better not to have any, then be pleasantly surprised - Mrs Alien.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I like what AMD unveiled today even if it lacked Vega specifics. The 100% scaling from Sniper Elite 4 was exciting to see. Before DX12 arrived and disappointed us, the promise of dedicated multi-GPU support was an enticing prospect. With a partnership with Bethesda along with other companies, HBC, and multi-GPU scaling improving, that's enough to wet my whistle.

 

[AlienALX]

They are remaining incredibly tight lipped and you can't really blame them. Last time they showed their cards first Nvidia gave them a bitch slap.

Heh, just noticed the "cards" irony literal for the lol.

I think Raja is far more intelligent than the guy he replaced.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Did Ian leak the release day when he said his liquid service would be available on the 14th at launch? He did not say what month, but you know the day now

 

[Type-8]

Can't blame them for holding things back, Nvidia did announce the 1080 Ti today. Lets hope they're making Vega out of Witchcraft and Sorcery and it really does compete at the top end.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

While I'm skeptical AMD will be able to bring out much bigger guns than they've already shown, I really hope they can either increase Vega's performance to clearly better an overclocked 1080 or reduce the price to remain in line with their new competitors.

 

[Kleptobot]

There is so little information about Vega, do we even have an approximate release window?

 

[NeverBackDown]

There is so little information about Vega, do we even have an approximate release window?

Yes. Should be early/mid Q2.
Q2 was confirmed, but other details about when suggest that timeframe.

 

[Shingara]

There is little information on vega that is correct, but that says somthing important, the rx580 etc are not vega, so that means they have imporved alot on the 400 series of cards, if they can do that for the 400 then you have to imagine what vega will be able todo as it was basically built from the ground up to run with ryzen.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

There is little information on vega that is correct, but that says somthing important, the rx580 etc are not vega, so that means they have imporved alot on the 400 series of cards, if they can do that for the 400 then you have to imagine what vega will be able todo as it was basically built from the ground up to run with ryzen.

Wccftech recently reported that the RX 580 and below will be rebrands of Polaris with higher clock speeds and will be available April 4th (yes, that's an odd day so I'm cautious of the article's validity). Considering Polaris doesn't scale particularly well with overclocks the performance jump won't be very high. I think the RX 580 was going to be clocked at 1350Mhz or around that mark.