According to the latest rumors from our friends over at WCCFtech, the next generation of AMD graphics card, which will reportedly be based on the upcoming Vega architecture might become available in May 2017. At launch AMD might release the two different chips - Vega 10 and Vega 11. While the first one is supposed to be the new flagship, Vega 11 is expected to replace Polaris offering slightly higher performance and a better performance/watt ratio.
If we’re to believe the latest predictions on performance, AMD Vega 10 should be almost as fast as NVIDIA’s massive GP102 chip, which is being used in their Titan X Pascal cards. This new AMD chip is supposed to be equipped with 4096 stream processors, offering up to 24 TFLOP/s 16-bit floating point performance. Additionally it will equipped with 8GB or maybe even 16GB HBM2 memory, hitting 512 GB/s memory bandwidth. Apart from that Vega should be highly energy efficient, which the top-end model hitting a typical board power of 225 Watts.
AMD might even replace the Radeon Pro Duo, with a Vega-based dual-chip version. What could be called Vega 10x2 is eventually going to be launched at a later stage. Interestingly some plans on Vega 20 have leaked as well, suggesting that this chips will be a die-shrink of Vega 10 incorporating 7nm GP9 process technology, which is currently in development at GlobalFoundries. It will feature the same amount of stream processors like Vega 10 but more HBM2 memory. Furthermore Vega 20 should receive a PCI-Express Gen 4.0 interface.
