Perhaps they can add tmu and rop numbers there as well, vega 36-24-36 cards will turn a few heads.
I LOL'ed, thanks.
Perhaps they can add tmu and rop numbers there as well, vega 36-24-36 cards will turn a few heads.
Those are not great examples. In both cases the nomenclature completely changed, which can trigger more investigation from the customer. A situation like Vega 64 vs Navi 64 is way more susceptible to confusion (especially this one where both names have 4 letters and share 2 of them). In this case a customer might end up thinking he is getting a bargain by finding the older GPU at its discounted price and thinking its the new.
To be honest, I don't think anything at all is changing with AMD's roadmap.AMD has confirmed that Vega gets 12LP treatment next year http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-vega-12nm-lp-2018,35502.html
The new 12LP is most likely the mysterious "14nm+" in AMD slides, renamed like TSMC renamed their 16nm to 12nm
I don't see it that way. Vega is a different name than Navi and that alone should trigger investigation. Pricing between Vega 64 and Navi 64 will be different.Those are not great examples. In both cases the nomenclature completely changed, which can trigger more investigation from the customer. A situation like Vega 64 vs Navi 64 is way more susceptible to confusion (especially this one where both names have 4 letters and share 2 of them). In this case a customer might end up thinking he is getting a bargain by finding the older GPU at its discounted price and thinking its the new.
Oh boy was that cringeworthy...I give you the HD 6850 and HD 6870 as an upgrade to the HD 5850 and HD 5870
Perhaps they can add tmu and rop numbers there as well, vega 36-24-36 cards will turn a few heads.
Vega11 means new die.Vega 11 - 28 & 32. These look just like half of Vega 10.
Is it possible AMD is taking Vega dies that have manufacturing faults and using the good half of the die, with one stack of HBM2? Or has AMD designed a new die?
Ooops, sorry. Had no clue. Never mined and I don't really run compute applications so I learned something new. Thanks!Sarcasm detection failed? For mining, you have to explicitly disable Crossfire/SLI, as for many/most(?) other compute applications apart from games as well.
Which honestly makes no sense.Still, if it performs similar to Vega 10, it is a RX580 with HBM2.
It's still going to be Radeon.Mebbe they should bust themselves up in to two divisions. One for CPUs and one for the GPU stuff. They could keep AMD for the CPU stuff since it's so well known and liked right now with Zen, but what could they possibly call their GPU unit that would bring back a certain nostalgia/hope/enthusiasm for the brand? Some name that everyone wouldn't be hATing on....
Sarcasm detection failed? For mining, you have to explicitly disable Crossfire/SLI, as for many/most(?) other compute applications apart from games as well.
License Qualcomm Adreno tech from all their old gang that went over there. It just hasn't been the same without sireric. Except from what I understand their drivers suck too.Mebbe they should bust themselves up in to two divisions. One for CPUs and one for the GPU stuff. They could keep AMD for the CPU stuff since it's so well known and liked right now with Zen, but what could they possibly call their GPU unit that would bring back a certain nostalgia/hope/enthusiasm for the brand? Some name that everyone wouldn't be hATing on....
Still, if it performs similar to Vega 10, it is a RX580 with HBM2.
Not connecting 'Radeon' to 'Vega' is probably a good thing for the Radeon brand...I have to agree a comment above about generation-specific branding potentially undermining the Radeon brand which is very well established via copeous marketing resources poured in.
In my opinion, people won't like products with 4GB of memory, even though with HBM2 and HBCC it is more than enough and won't be worse than 8 GB GDDR (it's probably even better). So if they really release such product, there should be large text on the box saying:
4 GB HBM2, up to 24 GB of memory
or whatever they decide to be upper limit for these cards