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Guru3D.com » News » AMD VEGA (Radeon RX 490) Launch Imminent ?

AMD VEGA (Radeon RX 490) Launch Imminent ?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/15/2016 09:31 AM | source: | 113 comment(s)
AMD VEGA (Radeon RX 490) Launch Imminent ?

As you all know, AMD is yet to release the enthusiast SKUs for their graphics card line. The Radeon RX 490 series will be based on a GPU called VEGA 10. We already know that AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) chief Raja Koduri tweeted that development of "Vega10" had just crossed a milestone, although it's a long way to go before you can see it".

AMD was supposed to launch their high-end class VEGA (codename) product in early 2017, the latest rumor was that the launch was being moved forward towards October. However today on Facebook Chris Hook, Sr. Director, Global Marketing and Public Relations, Radeon Technologies Group at AMD posted a photo with the comment "This is the Vega launch venue. Shh, don't tell the press". Considering half the worlds tech press is on his facebook, that obviously was a rather subtle joke slash hint.
  

Not exactly what you'd expect for a product launch - but for gaming series graphics card it certainly looks like a scenery from a Batllefield'ish game?


If this isn't a complete pun (and I do not expect it to be) then AMD is preparing a launch event for VEGA. Let's say you start planning such an even two months up-front, then indeed you can expect launch time to be October ...

So After Polaris comes Vega, Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. On earlier roadmaps VEGA was tagged as a HBM2 product. 

On the venue ... I better get my Tetanus shots.
  



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Cave Waverider
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#5321279 Posted on: 08/15/2016 11:32 AM
I hope it'll be nice! :)

Yogi
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#5321280 Posted on: 08/15/2016 11:40 AM
not agree, most of the hype were, is, and will be by AMD itself... and the result are always very bad for the product which is most of the time good.



I don't think that AMD have been over-hyping any of their products. The 480 for example, was almost exactly what their official press releases described it as.

The hype seems to come from people making outlandish claims from dubious benchmark and specification leaks.

I can hope that Vega shows up in October (if only to shut up the whiners. So what if there are no competitors for high-end Pascal, it's not the end of the world so deal with it)

But until I read Hilberts review, I will reserve judgment.

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#5321281 Posted on: 08/15/2016 11:40 AM
so small gddr5x vega?

Kaarme
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#5321283 Posted on: 08/15/2016 11:44 AM
I'd find it strange if AMD itself didn't know if they can release a product already this october or only months later in '17. It makes little sense they would have been telling 2017 if they are releasing it already in a couple of months. Some people who didn't want to wait no doubt went for 1070/1080, but they might have waited if it was only october.

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#5321284 Posted on: 08/15/2016 11:46 AM
For the sake of AMD please do not hype this.

If they hype it, fanboys will come.

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