AMD RX Vega series

AMD RX Vega
Release date August 14, 2017
Codename
  • Vega
Architecture GCN 5th gen
Cards
High-end RX Vega 56
RX Vega 64
History
Predecessor Radeon 500 Series
Successor Navi Architecture

The AMD RX Vega series is a series of consumer graphics processors produced by AMD. These cards are to use the Vega architecture, are to feature HBM2 high-speed memory[1] and will continue to use the 14nm FinFET architecture.[2] Vega will be the first to use the new Graphics Core Next 5th generation and will be succeeded by the Navi architecture in 2018.[3] The Lineup, releasing on the 14th of August 2017, will include the RX Vega 56 and the RX Vega 64, priced at $399 and $499 respectively.[4]

Microarchitecture

The Vega microarchitecture is set to be AMD's upcoming flagship graphics cards,[5] and is to be the successors to the RX 300 series enthusiast Fury products and is set to launch in 2017.

Partial specifications of the architecture and Vega 10 GPU were announced with the Radeon Instinct MI25 in December 2016.[6] The GPU is expected to have 12.5 TFLOPS of single precision performance. AMD later teased details of the Vega architecture which is to target increased instructions per clock, higher clock speeds, and support HBM2.[7][8][9] Pre-release performance comparisons of the RX Vega series to Nvidia's Geforce 10 series have also been inferred based on the professionally targeted Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.[10]

Announcement

Vega was originally announced at AMD's CES 2017 presentation on January 5, 2017[11] alongside the Zen line of CPUs.[12] Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of the Radeon Technologies Group,[13] stated "It is incredible to see GPUs being used to solve gigabyte-scale data problems in gaming to exabyte-scale data problems in machine intelligence. We designed the Vega architecture to build on this ability".[11]

Chipset table

Desktop

Model
(Codename)		 Launch Architecture
(Fab)		 Transistors
Die Size		 Core config[lower-alpha 1] Clock rate Fillrate[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] Memory Processing power[lower-alpha 4]
(GFLOPS)		 TDP (Watts) Bus interface API support (version) Release Price (USD)
Core (MHz)
(Boost)		 Memory (MT/s) Texture (GT/s)
(Boost)		 Pixel (GP/s)
(Boost)		 Size (GiB) Bus type Bus width (bit) Bandwidth (GB/s) Single
(Boost)		 Double
(Boost)		 Half
(Boost)		 Direct3D (FL) OpenGL
OpenCL		 Vulkan
Radeon RX Vega 56[14][15][16] August 14, 2017 GCN 5th gen
(14 nm)		 12.5B
486 mm2		 3584:224:64 1156
(1471)		 1600 258.9
(329.5)		 74.0
(94.1)		 8 HBM2 2048 410 8286
(10544)		 518
(659)		 16572
(21088)		 210 PCIe 3.0 ×16 12.0 (12_1) 4.5
2.0		 1.0 $399
Radeon RX Vega 64[14][16][17] 4096:256:64 1247
(1546)		 1890 319.2
(395.8)		 79.8
(98.9)		 483.8 10215
(12665)		 638
(792)		 20431
(25330)		 295 $499
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid[14][16][17] 1406
(1677)		 359.9
(429.3)		 90.0
(107.3)		 11518
(13738)		 720
(859)		 23036
(27476)		 345 $699
  1. ↑ Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units
  2. ↑ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. ↑ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  4. ↑ Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.


See also

References

  1. ↑ "AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Unveiled: 13 TFLOPs, 16GB HBM2, Ships In June". Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  2. ↑ "Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: First AMD Vega GPU is for the pros". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  3. ↑ Smith, Ryan. "AMD Updates GPU Architecture Roadmap: After Navi Comes “Next Gen”". Archived from the original on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  4. ↑ "AMD's Radeon RX Vega 64 will cost $499 and battle the GeForce GTX 1080". PCWorld. Archived from the original on 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  5. ↑ Smith, Ryan (5 January 2017). "The AMD Vega GPU Architecture Teaser". Anandtech.com. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Shrout, Ryan (12 December 2016). "Radeon Instinct Machine Learning GPUs include Vega, Preview Performance". PC Per. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Kampman, Jeff (5 January 2017). "The curtain comes up on AMD's Vega architecture". TechReport.com. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  8. ↑ Shrout, Ryan (5 January 2017). "AMD Vega GPU Architecture Preview: Redesigned Memory Architecture". PC Perspective. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  9. ↑ Smith, Ryan (5 January 2017). "The AMD Vega Architecture Teaser: Higher IPC, Tiling, & More, coming in H1'2017". Anandtech.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  10. ↑ Shrout, Ryan (30 June 2017). "The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB Air Cooled Review". PC Perspective. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  11. 1 2 "Vega: AMD’s New Graphics Architecture for Virtually Unlimited Workloads". www.amd.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  12. ↑ "AMD Ryzen CPUs: 7 all-new details revealed at CES 2017". PCWorld. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  13. ↑ "Executive Biography - Raja Koduri". www.amd.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-20. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  14. 1 2 3 Smith, Ryan (30 July 2017). "Radeon RX Vega Unveiled". anand. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  15. ↑ "Radeon RX Vega 56". Radeon RX Vega 56. AMD. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  16. 1 2 3 Angelini, Chris (30 July 2017). "AMD Radeon RX Vega 64: Bundles, Specs, And Aug. 14 Availability". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  17. 1 2 "Radeon RX Vega 64". Radeon RX Vega 64. AMD. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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