AMD Radeon RX Vega will be launched at the end of July at the graphics conference Siggraph

A big snack on the graphics card front in recent months has been AMD and the company’s upcoming graphics architecture Vega. First out will be the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which will be released on June 27 and is aimed at professional users with a strong focus on machine learning.

Ahead of this year’s Computex trade show, AMD announced that they would show the Radeon RX Vega for gaming, but that it would not be about a regular launch. Instead, the company said during the fair that the launch will take place later in the summer, more specifically during the graphics conference Siggraph, which runs from July 30 to August 3.

AMD did not show graphics cards in physical form, but instead chose to demonstrate when the game title Prey was driven with two Radeon RX Vega and a 16-core AMD Ryzen Threaddripper processor in 4K resolution and the level of detail set on Ultra. However, no exact performance figures were shown during the presentation.

Radeon RX Vega was originally intended to be launched earlier in the year. According to the company’s graphics manager Raja Koduri, the work has dragged on at a time when they have encountered certain difficulties with new technologies such as HBM2 memory, where it is rumored that the company’s primary partner SK Hynix has manufacturing technical problems.

In addition to the HBM2 memory, the graphics circuit with 64 computing units according to the architecture Next-Generation Compute Unit (NCU) for 4,096 stream processors and for the top model, the clock frequencies for these are expected to be around 1,600 MHz.

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