A fresh roadmap from AMD and its Radeon Technologies Group has just been spotted, and it clearly shows that Vega GPU architecture with HBM2 won't launch until sometime next year.

While AMD has been talking about Polaris GPU architecture for quite some time, there were a few information regarding future Vega architecture and we only knew that this is the one that will be coming with 2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2). Unfortunately, earlier roadmap was not exactly clear on the time-frame so the new roadmap does fix some things.

The year 2016 will be all about Polaris GPU architecture and AMD's 4th generation Graphics Core Next architecture. Based on 14nm, Polaris will include High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, encode and decode, as well as both HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.3 outputs.

The structure of the roadmap also shows that AMD will have a larger focus on high-end graphics cards with Polaris 10 GPU, as it takes a bigger piece compared to currently available Fury series.

The year 2017 will be all about the new Vega architecture and this is the one that will be using 2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2). Unfortunately, there are no more information but now it is clear that we won't see any HBM2 graphics card until next year.

AMD has previously unveiled the codename for its future GPU architecture and Navi, as AMD decided to name it, will be coming in 2018 and feature "NextGen Memory", althugh no further details were revealed.



Source: Videocardz.com.