AMD Vega with 16GB memory and 1600 MHz clock ( Confirmed )

[Valentyn]

1 minute ago, LukaH said:

somebody saw the April fools post again 

 

 

hope this is real!

Difference is, these specs are directly from the CompuBench database.

[Fetzie]

49 minutes ago, YoloSwag said:

Anybody read the comments section in the article?

it's almost the same thing here lol

 

The 1600MHz clock seems legit but 16GB of HBM2? wat?

AMD be like "Ready for 8K" - Probably gonna cost $700 and up.

 

 

Given that 8k displays cost over 5 grand, 700 for a graphics card that can drive that screen isn't that much...

[NumLock21]

20 minutes ago, juri-han said:

Lmao I remember getting crap about a week ago saying it was going to be 1500+ and al I got was no no no 1200 look at these leaks!!?!?'

 

lmao

So got any more lucky random guesses as to what are their price and performance benchmarks?

 

[juri-han]

22 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

So got any more lucky random guesses as to what are their price and performance benchmarks?

 

It will cost $600 ;p

[Masada02]

1 hour ago, YoloSwag said:

If that was AMD's strategy no wonder why they're in short of HBM2 stacks, lots of SKUs with very little variation.

Realistically, this is probably what's going to happen. They did the same thing with Polaris and especially with Ryzen. Develop 1 or 2 great chips and then bin the hell out of them to achieve every performance class. It's a great strategy for a company low on funds since you are really only developing 1 chip as opposed to like 4 that Nvidia does.

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 hour ago, YoloSwag said:

AIBs buy from both. I remember this thing with the old 8800GT 1GB version as there were problems with the SKHynix version I think. Can't find the old articles though, could have been covered up already.

Ermmm...I don't think AIB would have a say in what manufacturer is used for the memory for HBM based cores/packages as HBM memory is basically part of the die whereas standard GDDR5 isn't. 

[ZestyJalapeno]

16GB HBM2?

 

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[cj09beira]

We might  be over thinking it. this is amd playing with silicon it migth be instict version hardware wise and oced for exemple or not

[cj09beira]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

So got any more lucky random guesses as to what are their price and performance benchmarks?

 

It wasnt a guess it was the minimum required to achieve amds anouced 12,5tflops :-/

[cj09beira]

6 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

So got any more lucky random guesses as to what are their price and performance benchmarks?

 

It wasnt a guess it was the minimum required to achieve amds announced 12,5 tflops( MI25 server version of vega) :-/

[xAcid9]

Just got confirmation from my friend who work at AMD, this is real and Never Settle bundle is coming back as well with the release of Vega GPUs.

Half Life 3 is one of the bundled game.

 

 

 

 

/s

[Valentyn]

11 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Just got confirmation from my friend who work at AMD, this is real and Never Settle bundle is coming back as well with the release of Vega GPUs.

Half Life 3 is one of the bundled game.

 

 

 

 

/s

Better watch out with talk like that, Wccft might have it in their next article.

[Humbug]

[Valentyn]

10 minutes ago, Humbug said:

Yeah man, hopefully AMD's new improvements tackles their voltage/power issues they've had with Fiji and Polaris.

[VagabondWraith]

10 minutes ago, Humbug said:

 

[linustouchtips]

in vega i cant trust 

[MoonSpot]

4 hours ago, Valentyn said:

--snip--

*/me in every AMD thread*

 

[MadyTehWolfie]

4 hours ago, BuckGup said:

Even if it's GDDR5 16gb>11gb. Than again you would never need 16gbs right now and you would probably benefit from the faster 11gbs

Regardless 11 or 16 by the time games can fill that in the regular both Vega and big Pascal will be potato grade gpu's. Much like how the 6gb Titan (700 series) is now.

[Humbug]

33 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

Yeah man, hopefully AMD's new improvements tackles their voltage/power issues they've had with Fiji and Polaris.

raw performance is what matters here.

AMD needs to soundly beat the entire pascal lineup including 1080ti. Doesn't matter if it uses more watts. as long as a high end GPU comes with a good cooler and runs cool/quiet enthusiasts don't mind a few more watts.

 

besides it will be more efficient than Polaris anyway...

[dalekphalm]

6 hours ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Don't see 4GB HBM2 happening, even if it's more than enough with the caching tech in Vega. It just won't sell at all because dumb consumers seeing 4GB on an AMD card and 8GB on an nVidia card and thus going for the nVidia card even though the AMD card is better.

I agree - I saw the listed SKU's and saw 4GB variants competing against the GTX 1070 and 1080 - even if the GPU's are faster and better in every way, if they sell 'em with 4GB of RAM (HBM or not), people will buy 1070's and 1080's with higher RAM amount over this.

[Doobeedoo]

Higher clock speed not surprising. Though I expected 16GB HBM2 to appear, sooner or later. It would also explain the so called availability in start, as far as price we'll see, and also will it have AiO along. It will be very interesting.

[MadyTehWolfie]

7 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

I agree - I saw the listed SKU's and saw 4GB variants competing against the GTX 1070 and 1080 - even if the GPU's are faster and better in every way, if they sell 'em with 4GB of RAM (HBM or not), people will buy 1070's and 1080's with higher RAM amount over this.

Modern games now use a lot of Vram. 4gb is the bare minimum and for a lot of the games now will not cut it especially at higher res which is what cards like the 1080 and 1080ti are made for and to a certain degree the 1070. Having 4gb is a no no and was barely acceptable back when the 900 series was out.

[Phate.exe]

10 hours ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Regardless 11 or 16 by the time games can fill that in the regular both Vega and big Pascal will be potato grade gpu's. Much like how the 6gb Titan (700 series) is now.

Unless consoles make some massive jumps in performance, I'm not thinking Vega/Big Pascal will become potato-grade any time remotely soon.

[Energycore]

Running simple numbers, if Vega doesn't improve anything from Fiji architecturally and is just a fast clockspeed Fury X, we're looking at 60% faster than it.

 

But it's a leak so I won't get too much into it.

[Jito463]

14 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Modern games now use a lot of Vram. 4gb is the bare minimum and for a lot of the games now will not cut it especially at higher res which is what cards like the 1080 and 1080ti are made for and to a certain degree the 1070. Having 4gb is a no no and was barely acceptable back when the 900 series was out.

Except that:

 

1) HBM2 has significantly higher bandwidth, thus it can push the data through faster (meaning, less time needed for buffering, so less RAM required overall)

2) As I understand it, the design is intended to allow data to be accessed directly from other sources, such as RAM, rather than waiting on the CPU to pass it on.

 

Number 2 could be only referring to the professional grade cards, though.  Either way, point 1 stands on it's own.  Faster RAM trumps more RAM.

 

Think of it like a highway.  A 2 lane highway is going to be congested easier than a 4 lane highway.  If you have X number of cars you need to fit on the highway at once, a 4 lane would allow them to fit in a shorter space.  Likewise from a 4 lane highway to a 6 or 8 lane highway.  If more information can pass through at a time, then less RAM is required overall.