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It’s high-time for*AMD to announce a new generation graphics card*and it’s done just that with the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. This*potentially deadly duo*of souped-up GPUs take aim at NVIDIA’s Pascal series, namely the GTX 1080, 1080Ti*and even directly, to the*more recently announced Titan Xp.
Here are the nerdy details: the Vega features 64*compute units, an estimated 12.5 teraflops of single precision processing power, 16GB bandwidth cache and 8K display support.
However, AMD knows that one card isn’t enough (or maybe it is?), so a liquid cooled version will be made, in more limited quantities,*to tackle the very highest of processing demands, while also keeping itself intact.[https://tctechcrunch2011-files-wordpress-com]American Micro Devices is calling the Radeon Vega platform,*“the most powerful graphics card in the world for AI and applications”. Historically, AMD hasn’t enjoyed the same street cred at NVIDIA among PC gamers, but their chips are active in computer systems all over the globe, including servers, desktops, laptops and game consoles.
Basically, Vega is AMD’s attempt at finally pulling a fast one over Nvidia.*The kind of power touted here has the potential to shift*discussion away from Nvidia’s widely-available Pascal offerings, something AMD loyalists have been hoping for what probably has seemed like*forever.
AMD has already outlined*a couple of ideal uses for Vega (things it’s best at) including machine learning development, photorealistic rendering, driving research behind AI and of course, gaming.
The Vega series launches in mid-June for an as-of-yet unknown cost, however I’d expect it to reach*towards*the thousand dollar mark.
via https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/tech...s-cards-are-taking-aim-at-competing-gpus/amp/
Here are the nerdy details: the Vega features 64*compute units, an estimated 12.5 teraflops of single precision processing power, 16GB bandwidth cache and 8K display support.
However, AMD knows that one card isn’t enough (or maybe it is?), so a liquid cooled version will be made, in more limited quantities,*to tackle the very highest of processing demands, while also keeping itself intact.[https://tctechcrunch2011-files-wordpress-com]American Micro Devices is calling the Radeon Vega platform,*“the most powerful graphics card in the world for AI and applications”. Historically, AMD hasn’t enjoyed the same street cred at NVIDIA among PC gamers, but their chips are active in computer systems all over the globe, including servers, desktops, laptops and game consoles.
Basically, Vega is AMD’s attempt at finally pulling a fast one over Nvidia.*The kind of power touted here has the potential to shift*discussion away from Nvidia’s widely-available Pascal offerings, something AMD loyalists have been hoping for what probably has seemed like*forever.
AMD has already outlined*a couple of ideal uses for Vega (things it’s best at) including machine learning development, photorealistic rendering, driving research behind AI and of course, gaming.
The Vega series launches in mid-June for an as-of-yet unknown cost, however I’d expect it to reach*towards*the thousand dollar mark.
via https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/tech...s-cards-are-taking-aim-at-competing-gpus/amp/