The ultra-high-end graphics processing unit (GPU) Vega 10 will hit the stores in the first half of 2017.
During the past few weeks, speculations have risen that the motherboard item will be in the market by October. But now it has been confirmed that the product will be released next year.
Judging from the delay, observers are anticipating additional upgrades which can probably lead to an even greater visual fidelity. However, it is also possible that AMD will focus more on pushing its line of RX series graphics cards, which is based on the Polaris architecture, against NVIDIA's flagship GPU for the rest of 2016.
AMD's reset of the release data is not really a cause for concern since the GPU sales are a small part of the company profits with the Polaris products still in market position.
In reference to AMD's future launching of the Zen CPU, the probability off setting a market combo with the Vega 10 is highly likely. Releasing a couple of new technologies will spearhead AMD's gaming influence, considering that these upgrades are definitely huge.
AMD's Vega 10 is out to replace the Fiji graphics processors of the Fury series. With it comes a highly-touted efficiency in terms of performance. If things will go as planned, the processor will become the world's first HBM 2.0-based GPU. The utilization of the 16nm FinFET transistors, which will succeed the 14nm ones, will make the Vega competitive against NVIDIA's Pascal lineup especially with an upgraded bandwidth in tow.
Main features of the Vega include an upgraded GCN design which will provide a better GPU performance in comparison to the Polaris. Having the 10 on the map will set the tone for the Vega 11 next. With the 11 comes the latest HBM2 standard which will introduce a higher VRAM capacity and lower power use.
It is expected that AMD's new GPU will be presenting 4096 stream processors with SKUs that have different VRAM configurations. The presence of the HBM2 will allow up to 1 TB/s solutions which is currently carried by the Radeon Pro Duo.
