AMD is planning a launch event for Vega

When AMD announced and later launched the architecture Polaris, it was clear that the focus was on the entry-level and middle segment, a conscious strategy aimed at squeezing lost market share from Nvidia. The battle for the throne of performance would wait for the architecture Vega.

According to AMD’s official product plans, Vega will delay until the beginning of 2017, something previous information claims has been changed to October this year when the company wants to compete with Nvidia in the enthusiast segment. At the time, there was talk that AMD wanted to go up against the Geforce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, which have now also been joined by the flagship Titan X.

That the launch is closer in time than what was first announced gets extra substance when marketing manager Chris Hook posts a Facebook picture of what looks like an old steelworks. In response to a post, he later writes that this is the place where Vega will be launched.

So far, many details about Vega are shrouded in obscurity. What is known is that the high-performance architecture will be released with two graphics circuits, at least one of which will be equipped with the HBM2 memory technology. This has the potential to provide a bandwidth of up to 1 TB / s.