Some Radeon RX Vega graphics cards will be faster than the Frontier Edition - madduxthisheis

When AMD announced the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition at its hardware-packed Business Analyst Day earlier this workweek, enthusiasts around the world groaned—because Frontier Variation, the first graphics tease supported the hotly hoped-for Vega architecture, is built for "information scientists, immersion engineers, and merchandise designers" rather than gamers. So the enquiry on everybody's lips during a Thursday Night Reddit AMA with Radeon chief Raja Koduri was obvious: Where's Vega for gamers?

Koduri's PR handlers said right-wing upbound front that "As a publicly-listed company in the US… we can't lawfully discuss anything about unreleased products." But contempt that hedging, several interesting new information still came to light.

First and foremost: You'll study more some Radeon RX Vega, the gamer-centrical personification, at Computex in few weeks. Koduri didn't break specifics, merely AMD's holding a press event on May 31 at 10 a.m. Taipei time, which translates to 10 p.m. Oriental/7 p.m. Pacific. Don't expect a hard launch though. "We'll be showing Radeon RX Vega off at Computex, merely it won't cost on store shelves that week," Koduri wrote.

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Other tidbits are more than inspiriting for enthusiasts. At the Securities analyst Day, AMD showed the Vega Frontier Edition functioning Sniper Elect 4 at between 60 and 70 frames per second at 4K solving, as Koduri declared that crossway the 4K/60 barrier was one of Vega's goals. As it turns out, that's not the superlative of Vega's performance potential."Consumer RX wish exist much better optimized for all the top gaming titles and flavors of RX Vega will actually be faster than Frontier version!" Koduri aforesaid in the AMA.

A expected, AMD's new cards will also fall when developers use close-to-the-metal APIs. "Our architecture is very well suited for hard-core APIs such as DX12 and Vulkan. If a game or a courageous engine prioritizes low level access to the GPU, Lope Felix de Vega Carpio will soar."

In response to another question, Koduri said that RX Vega cards will have fully optimized gaming drivers (duh), "as well as a few other goodies that I can't recite you about just yet." Such a tease.

Fortunately, he could aver a wee bit more about Vega's ultra-fast HBM2 memory. Koduri confirmed that the 16GB Frontier Edition rocks two stacks of 8GB each, rather than a 4x4GB HBM2 configuration. Koduri also said "We will emphatically look into that" when asked roughly a consumer Radeon RX Vega graphics card with 16GB of HBM2.

The Radeon boss also addressed the availableness of HBM2 memory. The Radeon Fury stoc, which used HBM1, suffered from severe stock deficiencies for months after launch, and whispered rumors online have suggested that Vega's found may have been delayed due to circumscribed HBM2 stocks.

Koduri downplayed the supply issue in his answer, though it was distinctly a factor. "On HBM2, we're effectively putt a technology that's been limited to comprehensive expensive, out-of-reach GPUs into a consumer product," Koduri wrote. "Right now solitary insanely priced nontextual matter cards from our competitors that aren't within reach of whatsoever gamer or consumer make use of it. We privation to convey all of that good to you. And that's non easy! Information technology's not like you can bunk down to the corner computer memory to get HBM2."

Koduri acanthoid to a more liberal early for HBM2. "The estimable news is that unlike HBM1, HBM2 is offered from multiple memory vendors – including Samsung and Hynix – and production is ramping to meet the level of demand that we believe Radeon Vega products bequeath project in the market."

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The final interesting choice morsel for gamers revolves some Vega's red-hot Shrilling Bandwidth Hive up Controller. Canned AMD demoes have shown that the HBCC buns greatly lift minimum gaming frame rates in storage-deprived situations, merely it hasn't been clear whether developers actively need to support the technology. In the AMA, Koduri caducous some light:

"To realize the congested potential of HBCC, yes we will deman to see content from game developers use larger datasets. But we have seen around interesting gains even on current software, particularly in min skeletal system rates. Part of the goal of launching Radeon Vega Frontier edition is to help speed up that process."

Newsworthy stuff. It sounds the likes of we'll hear more about Radeon RX Vega at Computex. In the meantime, Raja Koduri's AMA likewise digs into developer-focused graphics tech if you're interested. To learn more about AMD's new graphics architecture, refresh on the 5 things you need to have intercourse about Radeon Vega, operating theater watch PCWorld's exhaustive conversation with Raja Koduri from CES 2017 to learn almost Lope de Vega, FreeSync 2, and more.