The names of the new AMD RX Vega graphics cards have been leaked, which promise a lot, although consumption points to be higher than expected in the first instance.
The data offered by AMD is that the new AMD RX Vega graphics cards will be presented on July 21 during SIGGRAPH. It has been rumored for a long time that three graphics cards based on Vega's silence will arrive, but the latest rumors strengthen this rumor and it has been leaked that the Radeon Vega XTX, the Radeon Vega XT and the Radeon Vega XL will arrive. They will be presented on July 31st, although we do not have much information about their arrival on the market, but according to the information we have, it will be in September when they begin to be commercialized.
Regarding performance, we have little data, but apparently the Vega XTX and Vega XT will have 4096 Stream Processors and obviously both will work at different frequencies. The Vega XTX will arrive with a 375W TBP and will have liquid cooling, therefore it will be the graphics card with the highest frequency. The Vega XT, on the other hand, will be clocked better and have a 285W TBP and it will make use of air cooling. There are no data on frequencies, it should be noted.
These two graphics cards have 8GB of HBM2, with a better price, having less memory than the Frontier Edition, in addition, 8GB for gaming should be more than enough, due to the high bandwidth that these memories have. Theoretically, a Vega with 16GB HBM2 should arrive in the future, but in this case it would be with two GPUs on the same PCB. Finally, the Vega XL will be the simplest and would have 3584 Stream Processors, counting on a 285W TBP, which will be air-cooled, but in this case there will be no assembler versions, all will have a version customized by the different manufacturers that work. with AMD.
Source: 3dcenter
High temperatures, high consumption and average performance for video cards that arrive more than 1 year late, well, yes, they promise a lot ...
As if that were not enough, Nvidia is already developing what follows after Volta, they only have to plan when they are going to strike the final blow AMD when Volta hits the market, the current situation of AMD's Radeon is more precarious than the that ATI had prior to the purchase of AMD.
too bad that Nvidia said that Volta won't be out for gaming :) and your argument disappeared.
What really hurts here is Vega, which after arriving more than a year late will barely compete with the GTX 1080 and with higher consumption/temperatures. If I were Nvidia I would do the same, take out “rehashes” and calmly improve the following architecture, finally my competition is… Wait, do you have competition? Just look at the results of the Vega FE… These graphics cards will be the same, only with less memory and, hopefully, more polished drivers, but being optimistic, how much can AMD improve performance through drivers? 10%, at most 20%?
I'm not saying rehashes are okay, far from it, but until AMD does something like Ryzen in the graphics space, Nvidia can do whatever it wants.
Until you see the benchmarks, everything that can be said is pure speculation ... since as we have all witnessed, a while ago we all thought that ryzen would be another name in the history of processors, but we already saw that amd planted it face to intel, it gave the surprise of the year, and when intel released its new series of process where an I9 is included, amd also released its own versions in ryzen, and lastly released a version of ryzen very attractive to the business world, hopefully and wing, buddha, yave and zeus want amd to do it also in graphics, so that the prices drop x god xk thanks to mining now they are x the clouds xD
Hopefully and you are right for the good of all ... But the truth is, Vega FE leaves much to be desired, although, we'll see ...
How does this affect mining? having 2 r9 295 × 2 when do I know that I have to sell them and change everything?
Until it comes out and the relevant tests can be done, it is not known, but with HBM2 memories, they should be good for mining.
the fury is already good to mine (although it consumes a lot), I suppose that vega will be good very good, but for now they are only assumptions.