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AMD Vega 10, 11 vs. NVIDIA Pascal GTX 1070, 1080
AMD has launched their graphics cards which were based on their Polaris architecture, now the company is planning to release the Vega 10 and 11 in early 2017. The forthcoming AMD GPUs will be based on Vega architecture that will be competing with the Nvidia GPU GTX 1070 and 1080 GPUs, which are based on Pascal architecture.
Fudzilla noted that AMD's Vega 10 and Vega 11 GPUs will be launched by the company next year as replacement for the current Polaris 10 and 11. It is also expected that the first graphic card based on the new Vega architecture could launch in first half of 2017.
In previous report we have stated the fact that since AMD's Capsaicin 2016 event users have know that Vega would succeed the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 GPUs so it would be arriving in 2017. For AMD, it seems that the Vega architecture is a crucial design milestone and rumors are now suggesting that the chip's development is underway.
The highlighted feature of the Vega 10 GPU is an improved GCN design which is compared to Polaris. The improved GCN design is said to lead to better GPU efficiency. Vega 10 GPU will be using the latest HBM2 standard that will deliver a higher VRAM capacity and a huge amount of bandwidth with lower power consumption in comparison to HBM1 and GDDR5.
The AMD Vega 10 graphics card will be supporting up to 4096 stream processors and numerous SKU with several varying VRAM configurations. It can also be compared to the Radeon Pro Duo, which is 512GB per second x 2, when it comes to the bandwidth. The Vega 10's HBM2 can accommodate up to 32 GB of VRAM.
Vega 11 will be a midrange graphics chipset with better performance and specifications at a very reasonable price. AMD Vega 11 GPU is expected to be replacing the current Polaris architecture. In fact, with Vega 10 and 11 AMD aims to replace their Fiji based Fury series with its high-performance offerings.
According to tech experts, this is a step better than Polaris architecture that which represents a 2.8x leaps on AMD's older 28nm GPUs. Due to a fine tuned 14nm FinFET process and efficient memory architecture, Vega will come with a better performance per watt than Polaris.
The Vega architecture will be as interesting for gamers as the previous AMD GPUs like Fiji and Hawaii and well positioned to win the next year's GPUs battle with Nvidia's Pascal GTX 1070 and 1080.
The upcoming Vega 10 and Vega 11 are expected to rival NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 that were all released this year. It has yet to be known if the latest Vega configuration will be enough to outclass NVIDIA's powerful Pascal technology. However, the addition of new Vega GPUs will give the people more choices for the best possible graphics quality.
