Trending News|October 10, 2016 11:47 EDT
AMD Vega 10 News, Release Date: GPU Going To Arrive Q4 2016 Or 2017
New details on the release date of AMD's Vega 10 have surfaced and as per reports, it is not set to hit October.
Vega 10 is set to come out at the end of 2016, Tech Frag has learned. As per the publication, it was rumored that the tech would arrive in October and part of the delay is that the forthcoming GPU is set to be a Pro model and not a general consumer variant. To add, some rumors say that it is set to come out in 2017.
AMD's Vega 10 is also set to come out with the tech feature called RX 490, WCCF Tech has learned. As per the publication, it allows the device to have a 4K capability, in addition to the GCN graphics structured by the company. Also, Vega 10 is bound to pack 4,906 V9 cores that are expected to lay down up to 12 TFLOPS computing power.
As per reports, the AMD Radeon RX 490 retains its 14 nanometer FinFET manufacturing process; however, it is set to feature 16 GB of HBM2 memory, which means it is the first AMD GPU that features a generation 2 High Bandwidth Memory. Along with this boosted memory is a 512 GB/s bandwidth and a 4,096-bit memory bus.
Vega 11 is the Vega 10 successor and as per reports, the new Vega is less potent the the predecessor. According to Christian Today, this is despite Vega 11's larger brand number, RX 580 GPU, 8 GB of HBM2 VRAM, 1025-bit memory bus, 256 GB/s bandwidth, and 7 TFLOPS computing power. As per the publication, it is set to come out in the first half of 2017.
Overall, Vega 10 is assumed to be released at the end of 2016 or in early 2017.