New AMD roadmap shows Vega and Navi Architectures
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WhiteLightning
Moderator
quite a challenge for amd
Ryu5uzaku
That looks like a interesting road map. If all goes well I might buy that Vega thing.
AlmondMan
So, without HBM2 does that mean only 4gb on Polaris based cards? 🙁 I mean it could make sense, if they don't plan to increase performance much, at lower resolutions, but just reduce powerconsumption and heatoutput.
fantaskarsef
Couldn't they do two stacks of 4GB HBM1 on a card? Honestly, not sure if they need HBM2 for this year's releases.
CPC_RedDawn
Koniakki
Polaris not even release and already "showcasing" the two future generations?
Something's not right. I had(have?) high hopes for Polaris but this seems a bit discouraging.
fantaskarsef
Ryu5uzaku
If they use GDDR5X with Polaris it will be fine. HBM2 would be better but 5X will do the trick for middle to high end cards. Vega then with HBM2 would be the "big pascal" equivalent.
Illnino
Will GDDR5X even be available in time and in volume?
EDIT: was referring to Polaris
Noisiv
AlmondMan
Embra
Looks like HBM2 is not quite ready in general.
Denial
Picolete
So, based on the release date and the use of HBM2, Vega would be the new fury?
Denial
Embra
I think we are all guilty of rushing to make assumption. The more we here it, the more we expect it. Patience is not allows one of our virtues.
cowie
I don't think we are going to have high end Polaris I think it will be lower end low power notebook/midrange I don't even think they will have hbm on them maybe next year for what we want?
I know I know but....that would be crazy for amd to put out a high end card in the next few months(besides the frankin card crap),they have to work on the 3xx and lower replacements like why have them power piggy cards in the line ups if you are boosting about lower power use?(that all they have said about Polaris so far tbh).
Samsung can do exactly that for them small die chip that has performance.
just saying of coarse no one really knows no matter what amd says anyway
Undying
What about Navi and "Nexgen memory"? What could that be? And its not like its far away, less than two years time.
gUNN1993
^^ Probably HBM3 or something, efficiency improvements maybe. Can't be anything else really can it? I mean HBM is designed to beat a bottleneck that doesn't even exist yet so unless AMD are planning some top tier magic ****, memory won't be a bottleneck again for ages.
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