Last year when AMD showcased Vega on its roadmaps, many assumed that this is will be the HBM 2 card and they were right. There is an HBM 2 card based on Vega architecture that should attack Nvidia in the high-end space.The site did not provide more specifics. According to AMD's recent statements, the first Vega GPUs will launch in the first half of 2017.
But there will also be other cards, as Vega hits other memory interfaces and not just the HBM 2. You can expect to see GDDR5 variants too. Our sources had no information if there will be GDDR5X card based on Vega architecture but it would not surprise us. Nvidia made a good product using this type of memory as it sits at the right price/performance ratio.
AMD working on multiple Vega cards, with and without HBM2
Posted on Wednesday, December 21 2016 @ 14:48 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck