{"id":341113,"date":"2017-05-17T07:17:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1491910"},"modified":"2017-05-17T07:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:17:22","slug":"amds-new-top-end-radeon-vega-graphics-cards-are-taking-aim-at-competing-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/amds-new-top-end-radeon-vega-graphics-cards-are-taking-aim-at-competing-gpus\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD\u2019s new top-end Radeon Vega graphics cards are taking aim at competing GPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

It\u2019s high-time for AMD to announce a new generation graphics card<\/a> and it\u2019s done just that with the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. This\u00a0potentially deadly duo\u00a0of souped-up GPUs take aim at NVIDIA\u2019s Pascal series, namely the GTX 1080, 1080Ti and even directly, to the\u00a0more recently announced Titan Xp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are the nerdy details: the Vega features 64\u00a0compute units, an estimated 12.5 teraflops of single precision processing power, 16GB bandwidth cache and 8K display support.<\/p>\n

However, AMD knows that one card isn\u2019t enough (or maybe it is?), so a liquid cooled version will be made, in more limited quantities,\u00a0to tackle the very highest of processing demands, while also keeping itself intact.\"\"American Micro Devices is calling the Radeon Vega platform, \u201cthe most powerful graphics card in the world for AI and applications\u201d<\/a>. Historically, AMD hasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Basically, Vega is AMD\u2019s attempt at finally pulling a fast one over Nvidia.\u00a0The kind of power touted here has the potential to shift\u00a0discussion away from Nvidia\u2019s widely-available Pascal offerings, something AMD loyalists have been hoping for what probably has seemed like\u00a0forever.<\/p>\n

AMD has already outlined\u00a0a couple of ideal uses for Vega (things it\u2019s best at) including machine learning development, photorealistic rendering, driving research behind AI and of course, gaming.<\/p>\n

The Vega series launches in mid-June for an as-of-yet unknown cost, however I\u2019d expect it to reach\u00a0towards\u00a0the thousand dollar mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" 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\u00a0potentially deadly duo\u00a0of souped-up GPUs take aim at NVIDIA’s Pascal series, namely the GTX 1080, 1080Ti and even directly, to the\u00a0more recently announced Titan Xp. Here are the nerdy details: the Vega features 64\u00a0compute units, an… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

\n<\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-341113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}