The AMD RX Vega development calendar shows that manufacturers will not receive the final BIOS until August 2, delaying the release of custom models for at least a month.
The situation around the AMD RX Vega is becoming quite untenable and there are many users quite tired of waiting for the arrival of a graphics card that is surrounded by shadows and doubts. AMD does not give reliable data regarding this graphics card, it is supposed that it should have been presented up to four times, but here we are, literally thinking about these graphics cards and it is that before their presentation, they will pass through Budapest and Portland We do not know why, because the supposedly official presentation is at SIGGRAPH 2017, although it may not be presented, who knows.
The specialized media 3DCenter has shown a table where you can see the supposed manufacturing deadlines of the RX Vega and the integration process by AMD partners, such as XFX, Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, PowerColor, etc. Manufacturers receive a reference model and a series of design assumptions to develop graphics cards that are fully operational, allowing, of course, a certain customization, according to the criteria of each of the manufacturers. This process, logically, has a few times.
According to the calendar that has been shown, the 'Bill of Materials' or the list of materials to develop the different parts of the graphics card, should have been provided to the manufacturers who will work with the RX Vega last June, which I would confirm what the MSI Marketing Director said in a Dutch forum, since he would have the data much earlier than expected, of course.
Now is when the interesting thing comes. The BIOS, according to this calendar, will be sent by AMD to the partners on August 2, with which, the launch of the AMD RX Vega would be delayed until the end of September, as we announced more than a month ago, causing a significant delay in marketing manufacturers' designs. It is possible that AMD will launch reference models earlier, to avoid lengthening this absurd agony.
The definitive BIOS is a base element so that the different manufacturers can develop customized models of these graphic cards, since these usually carry limitations on power and temperature, previously defined by AMD. This data is used by manufacturers to develop custom refrigeration systems and to find the best possible profile, in order to beat the competition. What is clear is that no matter how much we run towards the RX Vega, it always seems that they are the same distance from going to market.
Source: 3DCenter
More than 1 year ago when Nvidia introduced Pascal, both users and AMD itself expected a performance increase similar to previous generations, that is, that the Geforce 1080 would perform like the 980Ti and the Geforce 1070 something more than the 980, it is obvious that If one compares what is known so far about Vega with that old performance perspective, it would be that Vega would effectively compete with the Geforce 1080Ti (which should perform less), 1080 and 1070, but Nvidia broke the forecast.
I think AMD has done everything it has at hand so that Vega does not look so bad in terms of performance even with the penalty of having high consumption and temperatures, the funny thing about this is that with this they go 2 since with Kepler Nvidia it had You have to cut your best GPU in half so you can compete with the Radeon 7970 with the Geforce 680.
The third is the charm with Volta? Be careful because AMD gained a break in CPUs but in GPUs they are from bad to worse.
for this reason the gtx 1080 you raised more than 100 dollars I shit at AMD