AMD will drop new Radeon graphics cards beginning on April 2017 but the real big thing from the chipmaker will not be seen until the 30th of May. On that day, the RX Vega 10 and 11 GPUs are expected to debut or more than a month after the release of the Radeon RX 500 series, a new report said.

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First to be deployed by AMD are the RX 570 and RX 580, which WCCFTech said will be out on April 4th. Then on the 11th of the same month, the RX 550 and RX 560 will hit the market to complete the Radeon RX 500 series.

The same report indicated that all RX 500 cards will run on Polaris 11, meaning they will not be part of AMD's Vega 10 and 11 GPU families. However, the cards are touted to deliver better graphics performance from the RX 400 series.

Specifically, the RX 550 and 560 will represent some 10 percent performance boost from the last-generation AMD Radeon cards, WCCFTech added on its report.

But the bigger story, perhaps to equal AMD's Ryzen CPU release, is the company's new RX Vega series that soon will let loose the Vega 10 and 11 GPUs. "This chip will be the flagship of AMD's new product stack and is set to compete with Nvidia at the high-end," the same report said.

In recent leaks that supposedly benchmarked the engineering samples of the upcoming cards, Vega has showcased that it can outperform the best that NVIDIA has to offer - the GeForce GTX 1080. In some demoes, Vega GPUs were tested to have performed better, by at least 10 percent, than the flagship NVIDIA card.

And there were indications too that the soon-to-release Vega 10 and 11 GPUs will be on par with the GTX 1080 Ti that NVIDIA has announced this week.

Details remain sketchy on the exact specifications and feature upgrades that will unpacked with the RX Vega cards but WCCFTech listed the following as the key features to expect from the new platform:

•  4x Power Efficiency
•  2x Peak Throughput/Performance Per Clock
•  High Bandwidth Cache
•  2x Bandwidth per pin
•  8x Capacity Per stack (2nd Generation High Bandwidth Memory)
•  512TB Virtual Address Space
•  Next Generation Compute Engine
•  Next Generation Pixel Engine
•  Next Generation Compute Unit optimized for higher clock speeds
•  Rapid Packed Math
•  Draw Stream Binning Rasterizer
•  Primitive Shaders

But what is deemed as the real advantage that AMD Radeon Vega will enjoy over any of the NVIDIA GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti is pricing. While the latter will sell between $600 and $700, the RX Vega cards are expected to retail no more than $500, specifically for the flagship treat.