There will be no AMD RX Vega in 7nm, since the new GPUs will only be destined for Artificial Intelligence

Robert Sole 10 April 2018

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It seems that AMD does not have in mind to launch Vega-based gaming graphics cards in 7nm, leaving these GPUs only for the professional segment of Artificial Intelligence.

It was expected that the RX Vega from AMD would be competitive graphics cards, being an alternative to the Pascal from NVIDIA, but this has not been the case. The new hope for AMD fans is that Vega at 7nm will compete head-to-head with NVIDIA. Currently, the AMD RX Vega in 14nm are barely able to compete with the GTX 1080 and are light years away from the GTX 1080 Ti, not only in performance, but also in consumption and temperatures. The 7nm of the next Vega should be a turning point, but AMD does not pose them as a 'conventional' GPU

Apparently, Lisa Su and other company leaders, already in January, saw the Vega in 7nm, as a product destined for Artificial Intelligence. Such an idea has been echoed by senior members within the company's GPU division, repeatedly emphasizing that Vega 7nm is a solution for AI and not an AMD RX Vega for gaming.

Fudzilla highlights that initially they thought that everything would be a commercial strategy, first launching a professional solution, quite expensive and that when the chip and other components were finalized, GPUs destined for gaming would be launched. Unfortunately, AMD does not have a 7nm Vega GPU in its Roadmap, which is not even considered.

NVIDIA, according to the data we handle and some things we have seen, would have the Ampere ready this summer, graphics cards intended for gaming. The company seems to be waiting for Hynix to have GDDR6 ready, to commercialize new graphics, which, according to all forecasts, should be presented during E3.

This then makes it clear that the RX 500X Series, which are already being seen, are a way of holding out for the company, at all costs. These new graphics cards will not make a jump in performance and consumption, since a performance improvement of 5% is expected at the same consumption and make the jump from Polaris to 12nm, hopefully, since they are unexpected graphics cards and that show AMD's problems in the field of graphics cards.