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Last night AMD held its ‘New Horizon' event and officially unveiled Ryzen, its next CPU, which went head to head against the Intel Core i7 6900K in a few tests. However, CPUs wasn't all AMD had to demo as there was also a small sneak peek at Vega too, this time with Star Wars Battlefront running at 4K using Ultra image quality settings.
The system used was equipped with a Ryzen CPU, an AM4 motherboard and one Vega graphics card, which we got our first brief look at just a couple of days ago after some outlets broke NDA. We didn't get specific performance numbers like we did then though, as Videocardz points out, all we know is that the experience was reportedly smooth at these settings.
The one thing AMD CEO, Lisa Su, did note though was that the GPU was driving frame rates higher than the 60Hz monitor, so it seems that AMD is pushing this as a 4K/60fps card with both DOOM and Star Wars Battlefront capable of hitting that target. Aside from that, we know that the first Vega gaming GPU carries the device ID 687F:C1 and comes with 8GB of HBM2 on board.
So far, current rumours indicate that we will see more of AMD's new Vega card at CES next month, though that may end up being another tease or potentially a paper launch, rather than a final release.
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KitGuru Says: We didn't get specific frame rate numbers for the Battlefront test, which is a shame but still, it is encouraging to hear that the card can handle 4K/60fps in a couple of titles. That said, its worth keeping in mind that DOOM and Star Wars Battlefront are both incredibly well optimised games designed to run well on lots of PC hardware. What do you guys think of these early Vega performance sneak peeks? Do you think the GPU will live up to expectations?
I really hope that Vega lives up to expectations. From what I’ve seen in AMD’s previous years, they’ve constantly and consistently just rebrand mid to lower end cards and release only 1 high end card not based on previous architectures.
Neither Polaris nor Vega are rebrands.
What can I say- we need competition for Intel&Nvidia ASAP!!!!! Prices just gone mad and no-one is capable of reducing them, really looking forward to AMD releases on January.
It’s likely that Vega will be the missing Radion 490/490x. It’ll then be released as the Radion 560/570/580 with the next GPU iteration as the 590. That’s how it normally happens.
AMD has had it’s share of CEO’s things are running totally different at AMD now if you haven’t noticed.
this, I’m so tired of telling intel and nvidia fanboys that if their wish for amd to close, come true, we are all screwed.
I don’t support a specific company, I buy what better fits my needs and pocket. if CPUs and GPUs turn into monopolies I don’t see anything fitting for my pocket anymore 😛
What about fury? They still have 3 cards to compete with in the 1070, 1080 and titan (which will be replaced by the 1080ti for most consumers). AMD being absent in anything above midrange for 6-8 months is unacceptable.
Lol unacceptable? Their reasons have been very clear. Amd needs market share to push dev to use their tech. Highend is just a small % of the total market and irrelevant.
The pc gaming market? $300+ cards are irrelevant? If they don’t care about the pc gaming market then why would I ever buy their products?
Well don’t. No one cares if you do. AMD knew the biggest slice of the pie is 300 bucks and under. Pc gaming isnt 300buck + cards. It is the total. Just because it is what you want dont assume it is the norm. If you think about AMDs reason it makes sense. What is AMDs biggest issue lately? Their hardware is great but they lack the support from devs. Everyone whines about AOS but every game could be that big a win for AMD. AMD knows it needs to get more hardware into more pcs and by going after the high end cards does not do that as about 90% of potential customers wont buy them because they are too pricey.
I don’t care if it’s the norm. Alienating 10+% of your clients is not great either. Glad I didn’t wait around for a company that doesnt’t care about me then. I bought a 1080 and it’s great. Would’ve liked a bit more power but I was sick of waiting for AMD to counter and didn’t have more than double my budget for a titan.
Can’t blame you for going the 1080. It is an amazing card. I mean you could have gone 2x RX480’s for 2/3s of the price, with double the power draw and be 5% faster in maybe 3 games. jks, XD
Multicards are a waste of time usually. A 1080 equiv in Polaris would have been a horrid card anyways. Having said all this I have a R9 290 which is starting to struggle and also i want to move into 1440p/4k so it falls on its face. But still I think AMD did the right thing marketing wise. Vega will be decent. How decent? Who knows. I certainly don’t think it will take top spot.
I agree. Multi card setups should only be an option if you have the fastest and for some reason need more. Which I could see right now though. Everyone wants 1440 or 2160 monitors and I don’t know why. I greatly prefer 1080 @144hz to 1440 @60hz because I mainly play shooters. In actual game play, not benchmarks, I get 85-120fps in witcher 3 and rise of the tomb raider 1920×1080 with a 6700k @4.5Ghz, 16GB 3200c14 RAM and a 1080. 1440 I’d be all over the place. When 1 card can get 100+fps in every game at 1440 I’ll upgrade. For my type of gaming I have 0 reason for 4k but even a titan x can barely maintain 50-60fps in some games. 4k is not for gaming at this point.