Leaked slides on AMD VEGA 10 and VEGA 20

Robert Sole 6 January 2017

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Filtering slides on graphics cards AMD would confirm some characteristics of the present AMD VEGA 10, a future AMD VEGA 10 with two GPUs and AMD VEGA 20 for 2018.

New leaks about AMD VEGA reveal interesting news, among them, a period of time of exit and some things that we had not known until now. The first thing that stands out is the floating point performance, which would go from 12TFLOPS to 12.5TFLOPS in 32-bit operations. The image also says that they will have two stacks of HBM2, something that we saw yesterday when AMD decided to show the new GPUs.

AMD VEGA 10

The new AMD VEGA 10 will arrive with a 14nm GFX 9 architecture with 64 CUs (what were previously NCU units). What interests us most of all this is the consumption, since according to the filtration this graphics card will consume 225W, which is much more than the NVIDIA GTX 1080 that consumes 180W, but lower than the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal that consumes 250W, so it will be necessary to see where it is in performance, which will make it interesting or not when purchasing one of these.

Perhaps, the most shocking and what we did not know is that in the second half of the year we will see a graph with two VEGA 10 GPUs. Because it will have two GPUs, the number of HBM2 memory stacks doubles, reaching up to four modules of this memory. The logical thing would be to think that there will be two stacks per GPU, but who knows. The consumption of this graphics card is extremely high, reaching 300W, which would force the average user to opt for 750-800W power supplies, always with a minimum 80Plus Bronze certification.

AMD VEGA 20

Another of the slides talks about VEGA 20. We can see that these graphics cards would already arrive during the second half of 2018. These new AMD VEGA 20 GPUs will be 7nm chips with 64 CUs (what were previously NCU units). This graphics card offers more brutal jumps if possible, since according to the image it will be connected to the motherboard through a PCIe 4.0 interface, which indicates that we will have new motherboards and new processors, since currently no processor supports PCIe 4.0. The graphics card in this case would arrive with four stacks of HBM2, in quantities of 16GB and 32GB. The consumption is not known, but according to AMD these graphs would be between 150-300W.

VEGA and NAVY ROADMAP

The last of the slides talks about the Roadmap of the new graphics cards. What catches our attention is the Radeon Pro S9 Nano, which never hit the market with that name, as it was finally named the Radeon Instinct MI8. The image shows how AMD wants to replace the Polaris 10/11 with the VEGA 11 in this year and jump to NAVI 11 already in 2019. It seems that this Roadmap is official and would have changed in the month of September.