After AMD has launched their graphics cards based on their Polaris architecture, now the company is planning to release the Vega 10 and 11 sometime in 2017. The upcoming AMD GPUs based on Vega architecture will be competing with the Nvidia GPU GTX 1070 and 1080 GPUs based on Pascal architecture.
AMD's Vega 10 And Vega 11
According to Fudzilla, AMD's Vega 10 and Vega 11 GPUs will be launched by the company next year as replacement for the current Polaris 10 and 11. According to tech analysts, it is expected that the first graphic card based on the new Vega architecture could launch in first half of 2017.
HNGN reports that since AMD's Capsaicin 2016 event users have know that Vega would succeed the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 GPUs and would be arriving in 2017. For AMD, it seems that the Vega architecture had already a crucial design milestone. Rumors are suggesting that the chip's development is underway.
AMD Vega GPUs' Man Features
The main features of the Vega 10 GPU include an improved GCN design compared to Polaris. The improved GCN design is expected to lead to better GPU efficiency. WCCFTech reports that the Vega 10 GPU will also be using the latest HBM2 standard that will deliver a higher VRAM capacity, a huge amount of bandwidth and lower power consumption in comparison to HBM1 and GDDR5.
The AMD Vega 10 graphics card will be supporting several varying VRAM configurations, numerous SKU and up to 4096 stream processors. When it comes to the bandwidth, the upcoming GPU can also be compared to the Radeon Pro Duo.
According to tech experts, the Vega 10's HBM2 will be able to accommodate up to 32 GB of VRAM. W could expect up to 1 TB/s solutions that are currently only delivered on the Radeon Pro Duo (512 GB/s x 2), since HBM2 delivers better bandwidth.
When it comes to the upcoming Vega 11, this will be a midrange graphics chipset with better performance and specifications, offered at a very reasonable price. The AMD Vega 11 GPU is expected to be replacing the current Polaris architecture. In fact, with Vega 10 and 11 AMD aims to replace their Fiji based Fury series with affordable high-performance offerings.
AMD's upcoming Vega series of GPUs are based on brand new architectural layouts and new technology. According to tech experts, this is a step better than Polaris architecture that itself represented a 2.8x leap on AMD's older 28nm GPUs. Due to a fine tuned 14nm FinFET process and a efficient memory architecture, Vega will come with a better performance per watt than Polaris.
Tech analysts expect that AMD will offer several designs featured on the discrete GPUs and integrated chip designs such as mobility APUs and HPC APUs. Since it is manufactured on the latest 14 nm process node, the Vega 10 GPU is expected to contain 18 billion transistors crammed underneath its die and to feature as much as 32 GB of HBM2 VRAM.
While these outstanding performances will make Vega a true professional offering, that doesn't mean gamers will not be interested in the card. AMD will cater just as much to the PC gaming market as always. The Vega architecture will be as interesting for gamers as the previous AMD GPU releases such as Fiji and Hawaii and well positioned to win the next year's GPUs battle with Nvidia's Pascal GTX 1070 and 1080.
