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AMD Vega 10 GPU Name Accidentally Confirmed as Radeon RX 490 gets 8GB
Well, it's not like it was exactly a secret but thanks Bethesda for confirming it. Bethesda announced it will release a new HD Texture Pack for the PC version of Fallout 4. To prepare PC gamers for this upcoming pack, Bethesda revealed the system requirements for it, and guess what they listed?
And it appears that the big publisher has leaked the name and the amount of graphics memory (8GB) that AMD's upcoming Vega10 GPU will feature. According to Bethesda, these are the official requirements for Fallout 4’s upcoming High-Resolution Texture Pack.
Recommended PC Specs
- Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
- Intel Core i7-5820K or better
- GTX 1080 8GB/AMD Radeon RX 490 8GB
- 8GB+ Ram
Meanwhile in a new updated HBM2 specifications document released by SK Hynix they confirm HBM2 specs and availability of 4 gigabyte (32 Gbit) HBM2 stacks in Q1 2017. If you look at the photo below you can see two HMB2 stacks :) Radeon "Vega" thus indeed has 2x 4 GB HBM2 stacks, 8 GB of total memory.
If you dig a little deeper into the document you'll notice SK Hynix H5VR32ESM4H-H1K at 1.60 Gbps (per pin), with a cumulative bandwidth of 205 GB/s per stack. x2 is 410 GB/s of memory bandwidth, if AMD sticks to the reference clock on this memory
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AMD Vega 10 and Vega 20 Slides Revisited - 01/07/2017 10:17 AM
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Yesterday some info appeared in some forums, as it seems a beta version of MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 shows references to several new AMD video cards. Vega 10 is spotted inside the driver as well as Polari...
AMD Vega 10 - Vega 11 and Vega 20 GPUs Mentioned - 09/20/2016 03:24 PM
In an investors event AMDs CTO mentioned AMD Vega 10 - Vega 20 and Vega 11 GPUs. Not just that, some specs are shared as well....
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#5387115 Posted on: 01/31/2017 10:48 PM
Many people like me buy a very good GPU once in ~3 years and then hold on to it for those 3 years.
1080 may look hip and all now, but 2 years from now it will be the same story as with my 290X, which used to be really good at a time, but now is much more tame. Basically I'd buy 1080 not to try and push frame rate my 2k monitor is not capable of, but to ensure I will have enough juice to last next 2-3 years without sacrificing quality much.
For example I am waiting to see 1080Ti or VEGA and I'll make a purchase and it will hold up great for another 3 years.
Pretty sure in 3 years for now we will have GPUs with double the performance readily available and games will catch up as well to that.
I don't get why people think this. Unless you have a 144Hz 2K monitor (or some other uncommon monitor setup), the 1080 doesn't make sense.
Many people like me buy a very good GPU once in ~3 years and then hold on to it for those 3 years.
1080 may look hip and all now, but 2 years from now it will be the same story as with my 290X, which used to be really good at a time, but now is much more tame. Basically I'd buy 1080 not to try and push frame rate my 2k monitor is not capable of, but to ensure I will have enough juice to last next 2-3 years without sacrificing quality much.
For example I am waiting to see 1080Ti or VEGA and I'll make a purchase and it will hold up great for another 3 years.
Pretty sure in 3 years for now we will have GPUs with double the performance readily available and games will catch up as well to that.
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#5387118 Posted on: 01/31/2017 10:59 PM
@Gaidax
Yes, you have a point. But most people who don't upgrade are often on a budget, in which case the 1080 is still a poor choice. A 1070 will handle most things you throw at it and by the time it starts to get a little too weak, you could buy a 2nd one. At that point you'll have spent less money than buying a single 1080 and you'll have more performance.
I personally think 1070s are good enough to not get obsoleted in 3 years, assuming you stick with 2K gaming at 60FPS.
@Gaidax
Yes, you have a point. But most people who don't upgrade are often on a budget, in which case the 1080 is still a poor choice. A 1070 will handle most things you throw at it and by the time it starts to get a little too weak, you could buy a 2nd one. At that point you'll have spent less money than buying a single 1080 and you'll have more performance.
I personally think 1070s are good enough to not get obsoleted in 3 years, assuming you stick with 2K gaming at 60FPS.
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#5387139 Posted on: 02/01/2017 12:17 AM
Nice texture pack for Fallout 4.
As for Vega, the impression I got from what AMD's engineer said is that it's not a 100% win across the board and that at lower resolutions it was still uncertain, although, they hope they can beat GTX1080.
My prediction is that it'll only come into it's own at high resolutions like 2k/4k, where as 1080p won't be very interesting for current pascal owners (not that it should be anyway).
On top of this, I don't think it'll be the 4k card people are hoping for it to be. That'll be the next lot of cards.
Nice texture pack for Fallout 4.
As for Vega, the impression I got from what AMD's engineer said is that it's not a 100% win across the board and that at lower resolutions it was still uncertain, although, they hope they can beat GTX1080.
My prediction is that it'll only come into it's own at high resolutions like 2k/4k, where as 1080p won't be very interesting for current pascal owners (not that it should be anyway).
On top of this, I don't think it'll be the 4k card people are hoping for it to be. That'll be the next lot of cards.
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Why lol? Nvidia pays them profit for us blowing our money why else? Same with Intel.
Not sure about this, but it is gonna be a driving force for people to choose the faster card.
Don't think it matters much, 1070 isn't far behind the 1080 anyway.
Yeah, I didn't think for a second that my GTX 1070 is overclocked so the gap is now even smaller (I think 5% last time I calculated vs stock 1080), but as you say even the stock GTX 1070 is not far behind the GTX 1080 - if a 1080 can give a good experience then so will the GTX 1070 unless the GTX 1080 is only just scrabbling to get a good experience (which it won't need to).
If you play at 1920x1080, you will not see much difference with HD textures. This is for those running the game on 2.5K monitors and higher. That is why you need GTX1080 with a lot of VRAM
The thing that I find shocking here is that you need additional 58 GB of hd space for this texture pack
What you say makes sense in as much as they might be referring to a resolution greater than 1080p, but I think the performance gap between GTX 1070 & 1080 is not a significant enough one to notice a big difference in playability, not unless the GTX 1080 is struggling to get past a consistent 40fps (in which case GTX 1070 would suffer poor playability). I would bet that when this HD pack launches then we'll see they should have put GTX 1070 as recommended spec. (Yeah, I'm gonna need to rearrange some games on my SSD to allow enough space for this monstrous download!)