AMD's Radeon RX Vega GPU series will rival the NVIDIA flagship cards, specifically the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and the Titan Xp. In terms of performance, the upcoming AMD-NVIDIA flagship graphics cards showdown will "look really nice," a new report said.
Pointing to the recent Reddit AMA session by AMD executive Don Woligroski, WCCFTech reported of an upcoming epic AMD-NVIDIA GPU showdown. "(The) Vega performance compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and the Titan Xp looks really nice," Woligroski was reported as saying.
In tests conducted so far on sample Vega cards, it emerged that the platform, seen as replacement for the Polaris architecture, will perform at par or even better than the competition. As mentioned, both the Vega 10 and 11 GPUs are designed to give NVIDIA's flagship cards - the GTX 1080 Ti and Titan Xp - a good fight.
Leaked details and benchmark results, WCCFTech said, have suggested that the Vega cards, specifically the Vega 10 GPU series, will equal the performance seen so far from the GTX 1080 Ti and will likely come close to the muscle car that is the NVIDIA Titan Xp.
But really the more notable edge that Vega 10 will enjoy over the competition is lower pricing. As indicated in several reports, the Vega 10 cards, possibly in the form of Radeon Pro CPU series, will deliver high-end PC gaming that will not break the bank.
Specs known so far indicated that the Vega 10 GPU will boast of up to 8GB HBM2 memory and will make use of the 14-nanometer GFX9 core architecture. The same card will feature 64 compute units or 4096 stream processors.
And being the smaller GPU card, the RX Vega 11 series is said to debut with GDDR5 memory chip, which chiefly will be the reason for its relatively more affordable sticker price. WCCFTech said the RX Vega 10 cards are expected to retail starting at $500 while AMD is seen to market the Vega 11 as the company's under $400 card offerings.
Mass production of the AMD RX Vega series will commence this April, the same report said, and official unveiling will be at the Computex 2017 with the release date set by June.