New data on AMD Vega graphics cards, promise a memory bandwidth similar to that of NVIDIA's GTX 1080 Ti memories, but in only 4GB of memory.

New facts about the new AMD Vega graphics cards. AMD in this case has said that they will arrive in several versions and will have 4GB or 8GB of HBM2 memory. These graphics cards will have a GPU with a new architecture, a high-performance memory with a high bandwidth and also will offer great energy efficiency, a problem that has been quite important in the latest families of graphics cards, especially in the AMD R9, which had consumption and temperature problems.

Scott Herkelman, Vice President and CEO of AMD Radeon Games, has pointed out that Vega graphics cards with 4Gb of HBM2 memory could have a memory bandwidth quite similar to that of the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, although this is only information, dropped as there is no hard data.

Most likely, according to Herkelman, the new AMD Vega graphics cards have a more compact PCB than the graphics cards that the company has on the market, this because the memories are integrated in the same DIE of the GPU and not distributed by the PCB. They also aim to be cheap, at least the entry versions of the Vega, priced lower than the RX 480 with Polaris 10 GPUs.

These new graphics cards from AMD have a GPU made on GlobalFoundries' 14nm FinFET processing and may already be heating up for their debut, as these Vega-based graphics cards are due to appear in the second quarter of this year. The second quarter of the year begins in a few days and the Vega could see the light very soon, since AMD usually launches its products during the first month of each quarter.

Source: TheInquirer