AMD Vega To get 20K Units Released at launch and new Zen+ chatter

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/09/2017 08:48 AM | source: | 62 comment(s)

The ongoing rumors about Radeon RX Vega are just, on-going. In the latest news it is reported that there will be 20K Units for Vega available state some media. There might be news about Zen+ inbound as well.

This particular Vega rumor comes from Tweaktown who decided that news from HardwareSfera is an "exclusive industry source. Other than that there are no credible leads or facts on this info, but yeah apparently they would launch with a maximum of 20K units. Which actually makes sense, as most releases in the high-end see such numbers typically. The volume availability might be a bit more limited due to the fact that HBM2 still is in short supply.

There’s another rumor floating on the web that claims that AMD will reveal more info on Vega-, Navi- and Zen+-architecture op May 16^th. Here the information was derived from a pending Financial Analyst Day where the CEO of AMD will speech a bit. How the media gets to the fact that she’ll talk about Vega-, Navi- and Zen+-architecture, I have no idea. New technology roadmaps are expected to be released as well.

In an AMA on Reddit AMD already stated they will prolong ZEN architecture with Zen2 and Zen3 as Zen+.The first iteration of these would be Pinacle Ridge with a release in 2018. This series should get another 15% IPC improvement.

So likely next week we’ll hear a bit more on Vega and ZEN+, AMD will also be live-streaming the event.

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TDurden
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#5429720 Posted on: 05/09/2017 11:41 AM

Can anyone explain why AMD insists on HBM? Is say GDDR5X 512bit not enough? Fury did not seem to benefiy from HBM much?

Chillin
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#5429734 Posted on: 05/09/2017 12:52 PM

Can anyone explain why AMD insists on HBM? Is say GDDR5X 512bit not enough? Fury did not seem to benefiy from HBM much?

I have a feeling that it slots into their long term Heterogeneous computing concept somewhere down the line, and for now it's the introduction phase on the high end who can bear the costs in the first place.

Question is if AMD will last that long...

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#5429736 Posted on: 05/09/2017 01:06 PM

Can anyone explain why AMD insists on HBM? Is say GDDR5X 512bit not enough? Fury did not seem to benefiy from HBM much?

Fury X had a problem with so little ROPs,only 64,not 4GB HBM.HBM release/refresh data faster than GDDR5/x.

Vega needs again many ROPs,over 96-128,and needs the high bandwidth memory(obviously needs high power for ze chip).

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#5429746 Posted on: 05/09/2017 01:19 PM

I hope this is not true, because if it is, then 20K is basically nothing...

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#5429775 Posted on: 05/09/2017 02:36 PM

I hope this is not true, because if it is, then 20K is basically nothing...

You gotta start somewhere when you innovate. Without AMD taking risks, NVIDIA and INTEL would still be bending everyone over.

If they can deliver 1080ti performance without water cooler for less than $650 I'll pre-order one of the first 20k. I don't even need it, there's no games that take advantage of it now, but I'm tired of the NVIDIA\INTEL monopoly, the inflated prices and built-in obsolescence. Their greed has stifled innovation for years.

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