Aftermarket Vega

[Draydince]

Is there any information about aftermarket Vega cards? It's beginning to look like they just flat-out wont exist. There was talk of them coming out in September, but I don't see them available or even mentioned at any retailers like Newegg/Amazon.

[kerradeph]

https://rog.asus.com/articles/gaming-graphics-cards/amds-radeon-rx-vega-gets-the-rog-strix-treatment/

[Coaxialgamer]

There has been an rx vega 64 strix by asus whuch came out fairly recently. 

Don't know if it has launched for retail though atm. 

[Draydince]

1 minute ago, kerradeph said:

https://rog.asus.com/articles/gaming-graphics-cards/amds-radeon-rx-vega-gets-the-rog-strix-treatment/

Yeah. It says it's coming early September. Early September has already came/went and it's not out, or at least as far as I can see.

Pricing and availability

The ROG Strix RX Vega⁶⁴ is coming in early September. Please contact your local ASUS ROG representative for details on pricing in your region. Hit the link below for the full press release.

[Guest]

I think that AMD is holding back aftermarket Vega cards until a major driver update comes. It has been confirmed that some features in Vega (primitive shaders and more) are currently disables due to no driver support. Vega at it's current state is front-end bottlenecked by it's geometry output (stream-processors are under utilised).

 

Quote

The Vega whitepaper claims that primitive shaders are able to significantly increase front end culled geometry throughput prior to any fixed function culling (of the type done in Polaris with the Primitive Discard Accelerator) from 4 triangles per clock to up to 17. If even half of this claimed gain was actually realised by implementing primitive shaders, this would literally double Vega's culled polygon throughput and should substantially alleviate Vega's front end bottleneck, allowing Vega to much more readily keep its shader array fully saturated.
 

 

Note: Just an educated guess.