AMD prepares seven graphics cards based on AMD Polaris 12 and another seven based on AMD Vega

Robert Sole 21 March, 2017

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AMD is not only thinking about AMD RX 500 Series graphics cards, it would also be thinking about launching seven graphics cards based on AMD Vega, as revealed by the Linux driver.

What we knew to date about AMD graphics cards is that the company would launch the RX 500 Series and that the Vega GPU would be one or more special graphics cards, something like the RX Fury at the time. It has now been revealed, thanks to AMD drivers for the Linux operating system, that we will see not only a handful of Polaris 12-based graphics cards, but we will also see at least seven graphics cards based on the AMD Vega GPU.

These Vega 10 graphics cards will be based on the GFX9 architecture. To optimize the drivers for this new architecture, more than forty thousand lines of code have been developed and the support is based on “a new BIOS interface, new intellectual property for hardware, support for video decoding using UVD (UVD 7.0), support for encoding using VCE (VCE 4.0), 3D support through Radeon SI, power management, full screen support using DC, and support for SR-IOV virtualization. "

Not only will these seven Vega 10 graphics cards arrive, with high performance graphics cards, we must add as many graphics cards based on Polaris 12, which apparently will make up the lower-middle range of graphics cards. We do not know how they will be distributed or what the performance of all these graphics cards will be, but the reality is that all this has taken us quite by surprise since it was normal to think of two or three Vega-based graphics cards.

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AMD VEGA 10:

{0x1002, 0 x 6860, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},
{0x1002, 0 x 6861, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},
{0x1002, 0 x 6862, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},
{0x1002, 0 x 6863, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},
{0x1002, 0 x 6867, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},
{0x1002, 0x686c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},
{0x1002, 0x687f, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

AMD Polaris 12:

{0x1002, 0 x 6980, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},
{0x1002, 0 x 6981, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},
{0x1002, 0 x 6985, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},
{0x1002, 0 x 6986, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},
{0x1002, 0 x 6987, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},
{0x1002, 0 x 6995, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},
{0x1002, 0x699F, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},