Well Lisa Su (and other AMD folks) did call them R5 & R7 during the launch event (R being the diminutive of Ryzen obviously). It's also in their official slides...
I understand calling it "R7" as in short for "Ryzen 7" but not "Ryzen R7" like the slide, so the slide seems to fail.
I'm in total agreement with you here. But the fact remains that AMD/everybody in the world will no doubt call them R5, R7 or RWhatever in the foreseeable future just like they already did publically and in their own slides so Radeon RX Vega doesn't really surprise at all or shock me when you take this into account. Just like Intel Core i7 7700K (it's the Intel Core line of CPUs), AMD Ryzen R7 1700X (AMD Ryzen line of CPUs) is the same nomenclature. IMHO
To nitpick, the 'Fury Nano' was instead R9 Nano, so while all Fury variants used the Fiji die not all Fiji dies were Fury branded.
Seeing how good Zen is, AMD must have spent majority of their RaD budget for CPUs. Seeing Polaris which was a pure pipe-cleaning product with no major improvement. Vega is probably budget constrained too.
Already wrote a system to do it myself, but it won't work on PC because of API getting in the way. (Yes even D3D12/Vulkan)
Polaris improved the fixed function geometry hardware significantly. Unfortunately it was a middle tier product, bottlenecked by raw performance, so the improvements were mostly seen in synthetic benchmarks. Fury X with Polaris geometry hardware would have been much better. Vega adds tiled rasterizer (similar to Nvidia) fixing another fixed function hardware bottleneck. With these improvements in place, they can finally release a 64 CU monster with HBM(2) and expect to see it perform well.
There are two discrete Vega chips, but Raven Ridge is most probably coming with GPUs carrying Vega architecture.
XTX Pro never existed, but XTX PE did! (or was it XT PE?)Refresh: AMD Radeon RX Vega XTX Pro
"Vega" in the name is in same position as Fury was, so most likely "RX Nano", "RX Vega" and "RX Vega X" (or replace X with something else)
