AMD VEGA official details

[NumLock21]

Not to long ago, AMD has held a Tech Summit, in China. During their stay, they talked about VEGA. Here is a 17 minute video about it.

 

 

 

TL:DW?

99% of the content is a repeat. Can't remember if the new information below are repeat or not.

• AMD Vega is launching soon.
• HBM is 5x faster than GDDR5
• VEGA is designed to be scalable architecture
• Mobile VEGA
• Allows VEGA to be implemented into notebooks and other mobile devices. Letting users continue to experience VR and enjoy AAA games.
• AMD VEGA uses HBM2
• AMD RX VEGA will have 2 vram configurations. It will have 4GB HBM2 and 8GB HBM2

[Sousuke]

So I guess I'm now going to wait on buying my new GPU as this stuff sounds great!

[Bananasplit_00]

idk, sounds a bit like more things devs will have to implement to make their games preform well on Vega but only benchmakrs will tell. hope we can get about 1080 preformance at a bit lower price and a new NANO

[bakidota]

theres nothing new in this video, they just repeat stuf, hAHAHAHAHAHAAHA ill kill myself

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, bakidota said:

theres nothing new in this video, they just repeat stuf, hAHAHAHAHAHAAHA ill kill myself

I have not watch yet. What is repeat like a broken record?

[Memories4K]

>"Just around the corner"
>Computex in June

Stop pulling my leg AMD, just tell us it's at the very end of Q2.

[Kobathor]

I would wait, but the cards will be too expensive for me to afford anyways. Gonna snag a Fury on Newegg

[Princess Luna]

I hope Vega competes with the 1080ti solely to force nVidia do even better on Volta [:

[goodtofufriday]

Gonna add another fury x to my rig. Then sell it on so i can get the new hotness. Maybe grab that rummoered 16c/32t ryzen. 

 

Already dumped in 32gb ram. 

 

Before you complain, itll be because i can, not because ill use it all. 

[Trixanity]

I just wish AMD would release Vega as a top-to-bottom stack instead of a single GPU here and there. They need a complete line-up of modern graphics cards.

[dalekphalm]

38 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

I have not watch yet. What is repeat like a broken record?

When you get a chance, you should watch the video, and then provide a basic summary of it.

 

So far, nothing too exciting. The first 6 minutes were just marketing crap and graphs about trends. About 10 minutes in, they show the HBC (High Bandwidth Cache) comparison using Deus Ex Mankind Divided (Same thing they showed off during the old Vega conference).

 

Now he's talking about general tech inside the chip, programmable pipeline, HBC, etc.

 

No hard specs or prices or performance figures.

 

Welp. Finished the video. Not a whole lot there.

[dalekphalm]

2 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

I just wish AMD would release Vega as a top-to-bottom stack instead of a single GPU here and there. They need a complete line-up of modern graphics cards.

You know who wishes that too, I bet? AMD.

 

You know who doesn't have enough money to do that? AMD.

 

There's a reason they're staggering releases. They're very low on liquid cash, and they have to manage it carefully. Especially since for the last 4+ years, they've been dumping almost all their reserve cash into Zen R&D.

 

Assuming Ryzen 3 and 5 sell well, and VEGA isn't terrible, we should start to see AMD doing larger releases in the next year or two.

[RevoltTrain]

Is there a TLDR?

[dalekphalm]

Just now, RevoltTrain said:

Is there a TLDR?

See my post for a VERY VERY BASIC tl;dr. It's not comprehensive though, and I didn't bother listing all the tech they talked about, nor the results or implications.

[RevoltTrain]

1 minute ago, dalekphalm said:

See my post for a VERY VERY BASIC tl;dr. It's not comprehensive though, and I didn't bother listing all the tech they talked about, nor the results or implications.

Damn, no performance mentioned, That's a shame

[Trixanity]

59 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

You know who wishes that too, I bet? AMD.

 

You know who doesn't have enough money to do that? AMD.

 

There's a reason they're staggering releases. They're very low on liquid cash, and they have to manage it carefully. Especially since for the last 4+ years, they've been dumping almost all their reserve cash into Zen R&D.

 

Assuming Ryzen 3 and 5 sell well, and VEGA isn't terrible, we should start to see AMD doing larger releases in the next year or two.

I'm well aware but a man can dream.

[Vode]

I'm not really expecting much. Between 1080 and 1080Ti performance for $550 @ 225W TDP most likely... 

 

It sounds a little meh... (from a technology POV)

[Doobeedoo]

Nothing new really. Saw the vid earlier today. But hopefully we see it asap though. Exciting tech it is packing. I'm looking forward to upgrade. The possible 16GB ver. from AIBP though.

[dalekphalm]

10 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

Nothing new really. Saw the vid earlier today. But hopefully we see it asap though. Exciting tech it is packing. I'm looking forward to upgrade. The possible 16GB ver. from AIBP though.

Don't expect a launch earlier than Computex, which is May 30th to June 3rd, I believe.

 

While that's still pretty soon (Only 2 months away), it's still far enough away for many people to be unable to wait.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, RevoltTrain said:

Is there a TLDR?

you can't read a video

[Tieox]

I'm on the fence, fancy a new GPU to get ME-A maxed out on ultra settings, and carry me on for a good few years.  Was toying with another XFX R9 390 DD 8GB to Crossfire my existing setup, but considering Vega is around the corner has me second guessing. 

 

 

[Fetzie]

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

When you get a chance, you should watch the video, and then provide a basic summary of it.

 

So far, nothing too exciting. The first 6 minutes were just marketing crap and graphs about trends. About 10 minutes in, they show the HBC (High Bandwidth Cache) comparison using Deus Ex Mankind Divided (Same thing they showed off during the old Vega conference).

 

Now he's talking about general tech inside the chip, programmable pipeline, HBC, etc.

 

No hard specs or prices or performance figures.

 

Welp. Finished the video. Not a whole lot there.

It was a tech preview for industry people. Something along the lines of "this is stuff you can use to do things with your software". Not an end-customer preview where they say "this gets a bazillion fps in some games and costs half the price of the competition".

[VagabondWraith]

9 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

you can't read a video

If you're really good at reading lips maybe.

[dalekphalm]

20 minutes ago, Fetzie said:

It was a tech preview for industry people. Something along the lines of "this is stuff you can use to do things with your software". Not an end-customer preview where they say "this gets a bazillion fps in some games and costs half the price of the competition".

Sure. But there's still not really any new info here. Everything they talked about, they already talked about during the other VEGA conference.

 

They may as well have just played the stream VOD of the last one for those in attendance. They would have learned the same things.

 

22 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

you can't read a video

*rolls eyes*

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

I hope Vega competes with the 1080ti solely to force nVidia do even better on Volta [:

Making NVIDIA continue to improve is good but I hope Vega doesn't compete too well with it.  

 

I'm strongly considering getting a 1080 ti once I start seeing non-reference versions so I'd be annoyed if Vega made getting a 1080 ti somewhat pointless.  ?

 

 

I'm thinking I'd look at EVGA most likely for a 1080 ti.  I'm rather curious to see hoe their new ICX cooler design works since I'd heard Gigabyte 10 series GPU coolers are supposedly louder than other brands.  

 

 

3 hours ago, goodtofufriday said:

Gonna add another fury x to my rig. Then sell it on so i can get the new hotness. Maybe grab that rummoered 16c/32t ryzen. 

 

Already dumped in 32gb ram. 

 

Before you complain, itll be because i can, not because ill use it all. 

I thought all the high end Ryzen CPUs had already been released?

 

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

When you get a chance, you should watch the video, and then provide a basic summary of it.

 

So far, nothing too exciting. The first 6 minutes were just marketing crap and graphs about trends. About 10 minutes in, they show the HBC (High Bandwidth Cache) comparison using Deus Ex Mankind Divided (Same thing they showed off during the old Vega conference).

 

Now he's talking about general tech inside the chip, programmable pipeline, HBC, etc.

 

No hard specs or prices or performance figures.

 

Welp. Finished the video. Not a whole lot there.

So there hasn't been any idea how Vega will perform vs a 1070, 1080, or 1080 ti?