AMD mentions Vega Enthusiast GPUs to be released H1 2017

#5327251 Posted on: 08/28/2016 12:29 AM

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Those features aren't selling points for everyone. Personally, I really couldn't care less about PhysX. I haven't touched Inspector since I move away from SLI and Gameworks support isn't a game breaker either. Every cross platform game is going to have to be optimized for AMD hardware anyway since XBox One and PS4 both use AMD hardware. If the devs remove any optimizations specific to AMD hardware from cross-platform games, AMD has legal recourse against them unless the devs can prove that such optimizations will break the game. How many devs are going to risk it?



I agree those features matter little, what matters is performance and cost mainly. Power consumption matters only insofar as temperatures do for most people.


@ $1500 +13% tax CND I don't care if the TITAN X had come out in 2015

http://www.ncix.com/detail/pny-geforce-gtx-titan-x-76-128292.htm

no sale here so buy as many as you can before they go oos where you live.
and for me money is not a issue ,

By summer of next year the next line of GPUs will be rolling out with the X70 part probably matching a stock Titan X. So by the time Vega 11 becomes relevant, it will be a lower high-end part like the 1070.

I dont know why but i got the feeling that the small vega will be released in October along with Battlefield 1 Launch "its just a hunch" , but even if what you said reveals to be true , it aint that bad "an overclocked titan x" one year later
with a lil difference , i doubt that big vega will cost 1200$.
maybe within the first half they will release the entire lineup.

Yeah it would be nice to see Vega 10 in October, should tell us how Vega 11 will perform as well

Also worth noting that while AMD can always bring the fight in terms of pricing, they're in no position to do this.

With Polaris on 14nm GloFo many of us thought AMD would finally be able to sell smaller (less expensive) dies at the same price as NV's larger offerings.

14nm GloFo vs 16nm FF should be around a 10% size advantage.

GP106 is smaller than Polaris 10; 200mm^2 vs 232mm^2 on P10.

So 180mm^2 vs 232mm^2 in GloFo terms.

This means, barring large architectural changes, that Vega will not only be more expensive because it's bigger, but also because of HBM.

So while it may make people happy to see them undercutting NV's offerings, it's not sustainable imo.

That said if they are able to clock 20% higher without outrageous power consumption increases it should be fine.

Vega 10 is already confirmed to be essentially Fiji; 64 CUs for 4096 shaders.

50% die size increase seems likely so we are talking around 360mm^2

#5327299 Posted on: 08/28/2016 03:41 AM

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So no competition and price fall for G1070 and G1080 for new 8 months, or until Nvidia will deliver even more expensive HBM models..

#5327338 Posted on: 08/28/2016 07:29 AM

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Great... prices will remain the same for the next year. I guess the wait will continue until 4K HDR screens become mainstream before we some of us upgrade.

#5327339 Posted on: 08/28/2016 07:31 AM

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So, AMD has no high end GPU option anytime soon. That is not good for prices nor for pushing to make even better tech.

#5327345 Posted on: 08/28/2016 08:00 AM

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Big different there. And since when has AMD ever shown, like ever, that they are even close to Nvidia when it comes to watt/perf?
5850/5870 vs Fermi.