AMD Radeon RX Vega from partner launches in early August

At the end of July, AMD will launch the long-awaited Vega architecture for consumers, where the hope is that the company will once again be able to compete against Nvidia in the top performance segment. Graphics cards based on this will not be included in the current Radeon RX 500 series, but will instead be called Radeon RX Vega.

Now HWBattle (Korean) reports that AMD this week begins deliveries of Vega-based graphics chips to partner manufacturers. Initially, it will be about two variants of Vega 10 – a full-scale variant with all stream processors activated and one slightly scaled-down.

Furthermore, the partner manufacturers’ customized graphics cards are said to start being sent out to distributors and resellers at the end of July or the beginning of August. The report also states that manufacturers are investing heavily in the Radeon RX Vega with more different models than they provide for the Radeon RX 500 series.

In terms of performance, the Radeon RX Vega is said to perform better than the Geforce GTX 1080, something AMD demonstrated already in December with an early copy. Whether Vega is performing enough to compete with Nvidia’s worsts Geforce GTX 1080 Ti and Titan XP is not yet known.

In its full-scale version, the Vega 10 graphics circuit gets 4,096 stream processors according to the new architecture Next-Generation Compute Unit (NCU), with a clock frequency of around 1,600 MHz for the top models. On the memory front, a bus width of 2,048 bits is noticeable, which AMD previously talked about should be accompanied by 4 or 8 GB HBM2 depending on model and design.

The launch of the Radeon RX Vega will take place at Siggraph 2017 on July 30, and the first to be released will be AMD’s own reference design, which will shortly be followed up by the partner manufacturers’ models.