Reputation: AMD brings forward Vega – launched already in October

Nvidia recently announced the graphics cards Geforce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 and it has long been said that AMD is close to showing off its counterpart based on the Polaris architecture. Previous reports indicate that this will happen at the end of May. The sequel to Polaris will be Vega, which is scheduled to be released sometime in 2017, but it is now rumored that this may happen already this year.

It is the German hardware site 3DCenter that reports that the graphics circuit Vega 10, formerly mainly known as Greenland, can be launched in October this year. This would mean that it would be released a quarter earlier than AMD’s official product plans previously showed.

It is speculated that AMD has chosen to move Vega 10 to seriously compete with Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, something that Polaris is not expected to be able to do – at least in the top performance segment. Another thing that is mentioned is that AMD wants a launch that coincides with Battlefield 1.

It is already known that Vega will use the HBM2 memory technology for a bandwidth of 1 TB / s and it is also said to be equipped with 4,096 stream processors, the same number as in AMD’s graphics circuit Fiji XT, but with significantly higher performance thanks to the new architecture.