AMD has launched their first graphics card that is based on the Polaris architecture. And now fresh news says that AMD is planning to release the Vega 10 and 11 sometime in 2017. The upcoming AMD GPU will be competing with the NVIDIA Pascal GPU GTX 1070 and 1080.
AMD's Vega 10 and 11 be arriving next year as replacement for the current Polaris 10 and 11 says Fudzilla. It has reported that the first graphic card based on this GPU could launch in first half of 2017. Users have known this since AMD's Capsaicin 2016 event that Vega would be arriving in 2017 and would succeed the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 GPUs.
The Vega architecture had already a crucial design milestone suggesting that the development of the chip is underway and techies are hoping to see it in market as early as Q1 2017.
The features of the Vega 10 GPU include an improved GCN design that will lead to better GPU efficiency as compared to Polaris and it will also be using HBM2 standard. The latest HBM2 standard that will deliver a huge amount of bandwidth a higher VRAM capacity and lower power consumption in comparison to HBM1 and GDDR5, reports WCCFTech.
The AMD Vega 10 graphics card will be supporting up to 4096 stream processors, numerous SKU and several varying VRAM configurations. It can also be compared to the Radeon Pro Duo, 512GB per second x 2, when it comes to the bandwidth. The Vega 10's HBM2 could accommodate up to 32 GB of VRAM.
The Vega 11, which is said to be replacing the current Polaris architecture that AMD is currently basing their GPUs on, will be a midrange graphics chipset with better specifications and performance that will be offered at a very reasonable price.
AMD's goal with Vega 10 and 11 is to replace their Fiji based Fury series with high-performance offerings. It is also rumored that AMD will be showcasing new GPUs that will based on the much advanced Vega 11 platform next year.
