Following the launch of Nvidia's Pascal-based GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, it appears that AMD has decided to somewhat change its launch schedule and pull the Vega launch forward to October this year.

According to a new report from 3DCenter.org, AMD has decided to pull the launch of its next-gen high-end GPU, codename Vega, from early 2017 forward to October this year.

While Polaris GPU should bring significant improvements in power efficiency, this GPU will not have enough performance punch to compete with Nvidia's newest Pascal-based high-end graphics cards, something that AMD Vega GPU is all about.

Based on a multi-chip module design, the Vega GPU is also based on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, will be based on AMD's 5th generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and come with 2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2).

It should also offer significantly higher performance per Watt. AMD will actually have two versions of the Vega GPU, Vega10 and Vega11. The Vega10 GPU is expected to pack up to 4096 Strem Processors and should compete with Nvidia's GP104 GPU based GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, while the Vega11 should pack up to 6144 Stream Processors and compete with Nvidia's future GP100 flagship graphics card.

Both Vega10 and Vega11 should feature 4096-bit memory interface and HBM2 memory but could differ in the amount of memory, 8GB vs 16GB.

Hopefully we will hear more at Computex 2016 or AMD's rumored dedicated event where the company is expected to officially launch its first Polaris-based graphics cards.



Source: via Techpowerup.com.