The highly-anticipated AMD Vega GPU and the AMD RX 500 Series will launch soon. The RX 500 Series AMD GPUs will reportedly launch on April 4 while the Radeon Vega GPU will launch on May 30.
With the recent launch of the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, the world learned that the new GPU is amazing. In fact, it allegedly trumps the high-end Titan X. However, reports still believe that the Vega GPU is even better than the GTX 1080 Ti.
According to a report by WCCFTech, the new RX 500 Series GPUs will come out next month. The first of the Radeon RX Series will include the RX 580 and RX 570. Both of these graphics cards will feature higher clocked versions of the Polaris XT and Polaris 10 GPUs. The Polaris series currently powers the RX 480 and 470 graphics cards.
The upcoming RX 580 and RX 570 cards will reportedly delivery around 10% improved performance over their predecessors. These GPUs are likely coming on April 4, according to the report.
In another report from PC Perspective, the new Radeon RX 500 series is rumored to just be a rebrand of the RX 400 series. There is no official confirmation on the specs at the time of writing this, but sources speculate that the Radeon RX 580 is a rebranded Radeon RX 480. Meanwhile, a Radeon RX 570 is a rebranded RX 470. The alleged specs for the RX 580 and 480 are identical while the RX 570 has improved boost clock and memory clock over the RX 470 GPU.
In the same report by WCCFTech, the AMD Vega GPU is a brand new GPU series. It will include the Vega 10 and Vega 11 graphics cards.
At the moment, it is unknown what type of numbering scheme AMD will opt to use for this class of RX Vega cards. However, it is known that Vega 10 is the high-end version of the Vega architecture. This will likely be the brand's new flagship card which will go head to head with NVIDIA's flagship. As previously reported, an early engineering sample of the GPU was able to outperform the GTX 1080 by approximately 10%.
The engineers at AMD are hard at work with optimizing and fine tuning their latest AMD Vega GPU. The final product will likely be faster than those seen in the early stages. A full Vega 10 will feature 64 next generation compute units each with 64 stream processors. All in all, it will have 4,096 GCN stream processors.
The Vega 11 is the smaller chip of the two. It will be AMD's high-performance mid-range contender. It is set to go up against NVIDIA's GTX 1070 series. It is currently unknown how it measures up against the GTX 1070.
The AMD Vega GPU and the new Radeon RX 500 Series will come very soon. AMD has re-entered the gaming world with a bang. Even the new Ryzen chips have Intel scared.
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