AMD is soon expected to unveil their latest generation of 'Vega' series of graphics that feature HBM2 technology manufactured on a 14nm FinFET node. However, AMD is still partying with the success from their AMD Ryzen processor launch. While the lowest end of Ryzen R3 processors is yet to be released, AMD's primary concentration still lies on the launch of their new graphic chips for 2017.
Radeon RX Vega is supposed to be AMD's answers for Nvidia's pascal series of graphic chips that recently witnessed a price drop for the GTX 1080 card due to the new release of GTX 1080Ti, their top of the line flagship card for the moment at least in the consumer segment. That said, AMD Vega chips, according to a statement from AMD's current CEO will be released in two months from now looking at reports from Guru3D.
AMD Vega is on track and will be launched in Q2, the CEO said in their quarterly financial report. It seems like the manufacturer has designed the new Vega chips from scratch to care for various concerns and to also address most data and visually intensive workloads. AMD has also lined up their server end 'Naples' lineup of enterprise chips, at the same time.
Meanwhile, reports from WCCFtech reveal partial benchmarks for an AMD Vega chip that carries a device ID '687F: C1'. Apparently, the card has been demonstrated with Doom Vulkan revealing that it will indeed be based on an HBM2 architecture with a bandwidth of 512GB/s. With a VRAM of 8GB, the card will consume about 225 watts of power.
The first benchmarks for the new AMD Vega graphics card have been tested with a Ryzen R1700x CPU onboard. The benchmarks revealed that the card on the test bench performs similarly to that of Nvidia's GTX 1070 Pascal card.
