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It looks like things in the GPU world are going to get very interesting over the next few months. Not only is there a rumour going around that the GTX 1080Ti may be revealed in March but it turns out we may finally see the launch of AMD's new Vega graphics cards in May.
A report this week is claiming that AMD's first Vega 10 GPUs will arrive in May, with a couple of SKUs prepared. According to wccftech's source on this, there will also be a line of Vega 11 GPUs coming which are said to replace the current line of Polaris graphics cards.
Aside from a single high-end Vega graphics card, AMD will also apparently show off a dual-GPU card as well, though that one won't be available until a later date. The first card out the door will be a high-end Vega 10 intended to tackle Nvidia's GTX 1080. This chip will apparently feature either 8 or 16GB of HBM2 with up to 512 GB/s of memory bandwidth, along with 4096 stream processors and up to 24 TFLOPS of FP16 performance, all running at a 225W TDP.
KitGuru Says: From the little we have seen so far, Vega is looking promising. With that and a GTX 1080Ti on the cards from Nvidia, these next few months could be very interesting for GPUs. Are any of you planning on upgrading when Vega comes out?
Up to 24TFLOPS vs the 9TFLOPS of a 1080? That sounds pretty unlikely. If it was true that would be stunning, but it sounds too good to be true. Like, way too good.
I’ve heard other speculation that it will only be slightly more powerful then the 1080Ti, which sounds reasonable. Should be priced about the same too.
well the good news is my gtc 1070 purchues wasn’t a wast… I still plan on paring it with a RTG vega card that equivent to my 1070 for DX12 multi-gpu-adaptor support..
is this going to be another failure like when they relisted fury x you could not buy one for 6 months no one had them sold out everywhere price gorgers on ebay selling them for 2 thousand but you could not buy in the store
all sold out for weeks and weeks
24 TFLOPs is true… kind of. It is 24 TFLOPs of FP16 performance whereas thwe 1080 in 9 TFLOPs of FP32 performance. Vega will have up to 12 TFLOPs of FP32 performance
25TF of half precision for Radeon pro Vega. I expect more than 12.5TF of single precision for the consumer card. It’s normal to have lower frequency on pro cards.
That is every flag ship item now.
And it really sucks.
That is possible, especially with what AMD said about Vega being designed for high clockspeeds. But it might not be much higher. If it was the CES demo likely would have had it closert to Titan XP not around 10% better than a heavily OC’d 1080, especially in a Vulkan game like Doom. Don’t get me wrong, that is very impressive performance, but I’d expect better from a clock speed that gave much better than 12.5 TFLOPs.