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Last week, AMD released a ton of information surrounding upcoming CPUs and GPUs. Unfortunately, the gaming-oriented RX Vega was nowhere to be seen, which was a disappointment to many. However, we now have a better idea as to when the RX Vega is coming, as AMD CEO Lisa Su, has explained the rollout plan for Vega gaming GPUs, but they won't be releasing until after the Frontier Edition.
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a machine learning card with 16GB of HBM2. This particular graphics card is releasing in the second half of June and while this technically counts as a Vega GPU launch in Q2, it wasn't the one many have been hoping for. Speaking during the 45th annual J.P Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, AMD's CEO explained that the company would be “launching Vega across all of the market segments over the next couple of months”.
Here is a direct quote from Lisa Su at the conference as transcribed by wccftech: “We’re very excited about Vega. Vega is a brand new architecture and actually has really the world’s most advanced memory architecture for GPUs. What we did announce at our analyst day was that the first shipping Vega will be the Frontier Edition which will ship with 16GB of memory and will ship towards the latter half of June. You will see the enthusiast gaming platform, the machine learning platform, the professional graphics platform very soon thereafter. And so we will be launching Vega across all of the market segments over the next couple of months.”
So, once the Frontier Edition is out the door later on in June, we can expect other Vega-based cards to follow in quick succession. These will include Radeon Pro GPUs and machine learning cards, in addition to the RX Vega gaming card. Hopefully we get some more solid information about the RX Vega specifically at Computex next week.
KitGuru Says: AMD really does seem to be stretching out this Vega launch but hopefully it will end up being worth the wait. Still, all of the secrecy surrounding specific launch dates isn't exactly doing it any favours. Are any of you still waiting on the RX Vega before making an upgrade?
AMD DONE FECK IT UP. THEY HAD A GREAT MEDIA HYPE BUILT UP AT NEW YEAR, THEN A NEWS BLACKOUT FOR 3 MONTHS. NOW THEY STALL THE LAUNCH YET AGAIN. NO FIRM DATES.
I WAS HOLDING OUT, BUT EVEN I CANNOT HOLD ON ANY LONGER.
BOUGHT 1080 TWO WEEKS AGO. (WAY OVER PRICED.) INDEED PLAYER UNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUND SEEMS TO LOVE IT. SO HAPPY ENOUGH WITH CARD BUT WITH THAT FEELING OF BEING MUGGED BY NVIDIA.
I gave up two weeks ago too and bought a MSI GTX1080 Gaming X Plus for £503, got £43 cash back to claim and I got £200 for my Sapphire 290X. I have no regrets at all spending what amounts too £260 on a card that like the 290X will last me 3 years.
What has pissed me off is the lack of any information from AMD. That £500 I had set aside was for a Vega card but when I log onto my favourite tech sites everyday and get bombarded with delays, potential low stock levels and potential high costs (today’s is $80 for a 4gb stack of HBM2), it makes you wonder what will happen to the costs of the Nvidia cards if AMD’s launch is a disaster. I don’t want to see the GTX1080’s rocket in price because they have no competition.
I think one possible inference is that RX Vega simply cannot keep up with Pascal.
I’ve been holding out too for AMD. But simply refuse to buy from nVidia after how they’ve shafted their supporters time and time again. E.G. (GTX 970 3.5gb; Titan Xp 2016 and Titan Xp 2017)
nVidia has been allowed to run around unchecked.
I’m AMD through and through or was up to a point and now they are back in the processor game my next CPU will be a Ryzen. The GTX970 was disgusting they deserve everything they got though luckily it didn’t really affect consumers, anyone who buys a Titan pretty much knows they are buying it for bragging rights and its only going to be top card for a few months, it’s not strictly just a gaming card. AMD are definitely not faultless, they have renamed and relaunched the same cards endlessly over the last 4-5 years. I think the straw that broke the camels back for me was the pointless rehash of the RX570/580, I felt far less guilty about buying the GTX1080 after that needless cash grab.