AMD has just announced that its new Vega family will be called Radeon RX VEGA. AMD did not reveal any release date or any price for these graphics cards, however we expect them to hit the market at the end of the first half of 2017.
The most interesting feature of the Radeon RX VEGA that was showcased in AMD’s GDC 2017 was High-Bandwidth Cache Controller. This new memory architecture promises to improve performance in situations where PC gamers were VRAM limited.
In addition, AMD showcased VEGA’s Rapid Packed Math. With this new feature, AMD’s graphics cards are able to double performance under specific scenarios. AMD showed a TressFX demo in which the AMD Radeon RX VEGA was able to handle 2X more strands when Rapid Packed Math was enabled.
During its GDC 2017 event, AMD also showcased some VR tech demos, and announced a partnership with Bethesda. Bethesda and AMD will work closely in order to further optimize the PC games that the former will release in the future. The first title that will benefit from this partnership is Arkane’s PREY.
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Are we going to see the darn gpu today ? -_-
Nope, only the GTX1080Ti.
500 Euro yesterday instead of 800 on amazon.
Not even a release date… are they actively wanting people to buy Nvidia
PRETTY MUCH. Amd makes great stuff, but the people who run the company are braindead.
I just want to understand WTF is truly going on….. I have money…….I want the best…., so why do they not give something more to aide in saving that said money for something possibly better….?? Horrible business tactics…
You guys aren’t paying attention. There is another presentation tonight where more information is going to be released. I suspect they will unveil a card.
a card? you mean there is more than just the Vega?
oh yeah baby, there’s the MEGA VEGA!!!!
Will SEGA partner up with AMD for that card?
MEGA SEGA VEGA?
MEGA VEGA SEGA?
SEGA MEGA VEGA?
O.O
THE SEGA MEGA VEGA!!!
Ma chi se ne frega… AMD rocks!
But I like to prematurely overreact and throw fits. Why are you denying me this pleasure?
“and announced a partnership with Bethesda. Bethesda and AMD will work closely in order to further optimize the PC games”
Do not like the sound of this.
You don’t want them to optimize for using more cores? Derp?
What is stopping AMD from pushing Bethesda to optimize only for AMD?
That will never happen. If AMD optimizes a game is for greater good.
Yeah sure thing. I’m just going off the exact words the AMD dude said on Stream.
AMD can do no harm apparently.
Lol. Plz.
So there are people here tha belive Bethesda will make their games not run well with the majority of players? This partnership is to support AMD products. Bethesda will not ignore nvidia dominance and market share. AMD did not gain any marketshare by anouncing a product so one of the bigest publishers will ignore nvidia.
NVidia has no CPUs, so there is no issue there
and also Vega has features no nvidia cards have, so AMD will not force other vendors nor Polaris and older GPU to run their optimized code, which is exactly what nvidia is often do.
Also all optimizations are done in GPUopen initiative middleware with completely open approach and access to a source code.
Plus Vega features will be heavily used in console platforms, so use them on a PC side is a logical step. ofcourse there is a lot of features but NVidia can certainly release new GPUs with FP16 support for instance to be able to leverage one of those features Vega bringing on.
Last but not least AMD historically help optimize games to run on any HW, often better on nvidia in case of tessellation for instance.
Re: “Vulkan runs worse than OpenGL in DOOM on Nvidia hardware”
Really? There were numerous articles published proving the exact opposite.
So I just looked into that Doom claim, according to PC Gamer’s benchmarks, the impact of Vulkan on anything other than the 1080 and 1070 is a few frames (within the margin of error). And on those two Vulkan does quite a bit, though even that boost plateaus to OpenGL levels once the resolution increases.
So yes, Vulkan does perform worse than OpenGL on Nvidia cards. At 4K. By two or three frames.
At 1440p it’s crapshoot which will run better, but the very small differences still stand.
And at 1080p only two cards run worse under Vulkan while the 1080 and 1070 get twenty to thirty extra frames under Vulkan.
I don’t think Vulkan is going to cripple Nvidia’s cards anytime soon.
Footnote: I love being right ^^
Well, AMD have rumours, nvidia is a confirmation, so far nothing happened, being Sup you acctually don’t care about it.
“Vulkan runs worse than OpenGL in DOOM on Nvidia hardware”
What.
“push Bethesda to use Vulkan and neglect DX11 which in turn damages Nvidia.”
What.
Ey bro, you high? I think you’re confusing Vulkan with DX12 here, mate.
So perhaps the next Bethesda games will use DX12/Vulkan ? If it happens, good news
I guess it also mean no more gimpwork so that could be really good for everyone 🙂
I’m not necessarily against Gameworks, the problem is that their inclusion almost always means the game performs less than stellar. If they find a way to optimize them properly, I’m all for it… although AMD has most of those features already so why not go for GPUOpen while they’re at it.
Yeah it makes sense, PREY runs on CRYENGINE which is getting Vulkan support publically added in april so big devs probably already have Vulkan branches of Cryengine to work with.
Wait, wait, wait, are you saying…. No! It can’t be!
Bethesda will actually FINALLY start using technology actually made IN THIS F*CKING DECADE?!
Holy f*ck!
Dude, I think this is what they call…… a miracle!?
Not a big fan of GPU “partnerships”, mostly because they tend to screw over other that didn’t get locked into the other walled garden (let’s not pretend that every business works for another).
Although I’m looking at building an AMD system before years end, I’m not overly fond of exclusivity partnership deals. I can imagine nvidia doing the same sometime, then AMD users will be screwed in return.
ya more hair power
and vr!
doubtfully it can topple the 1080TI when it comes out
you know AMD GPU market is really sunk when they use Pascal titans in their Ryzen benchmarks
no matter, their GPU market is simply to keep Nvidia prices at bay
i couldn’t care much for their performance anyway since i always buy the strongest card i could find
After having Intel/Nvidia parts almost exclusively, I’m going all-AMD this round for my new VR rig. Can’t wait.
Good News Everyone!
So do I, because it’s open source, and I can choose the OS, but we hardly seen any true DX12 games.
Almost every one, claiming DX12, is actually DX11, with a DX12 wrapper.
They basicly, use DX12 to start DX11, which is obviously slower than just starting DX11.
When used properly, by the devs, DX12, and Vulcan will perform better than DX11.
Vulcan’s better, because I choose the OS it uses.
Please .. bring us more info.