AMD has announced that their first Vega-based GPUs will become available during the second quarter 2017, somewhen between May and June. This is definitely good news for anyone who’s been waiting for new high-end AMD GPUs. Unfortunately there aren’t any new details on the architecture or the performance.


During the past months, it seemed that AMD will focus on the launch of their Ryzen CPUs and AM4 motherboards, leaving the Vega graphics cards to be launched at cards at a later stage. At this point we’re hoping that AMD will have had enough time by then to come up with perfectly working drivers. Apart from that we’re hoping that there won’t be any shortages regarding the HBM2 memory the upcoming Vega GPUs require.

Vega based graphics cards are supposed to mark AMD’s new high-end segment and they should finally be able to compete with NVIDIA’s GTX 1080 or even the Titan X Pascal cards. As we mentioned before 2017 has the potential to become an exciting year for the component industry, with AMD launching a new CPU as well as a new GPU architecture. Apart from that there will even be new APUs and workstation/server processors.




Source: KitGuru