AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture

One significant advantage AMD might have is that they have chosen to provide full rate FP16 support:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-specs-availability,35112.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-specs...</a><p>...unlike nVidia:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;10325&#x2F;the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review&#x2F;5" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;10325&#x2F;the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1...</a><p>While that&#x27;s something that developers have to explicitly support, it will be interesting to see what happens when they do.

The Radeon Pro SSG is where it&#x27;s at:<p>&gt; &quot;The Radeon™ Pro SSG takes it one step further by having 2TB of solid state graphics memory on board&quot;<p>Just insane. In a good way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pro.radeon.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;radeon-pro-wx-9100-and-radeon-pro-ssg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pro.radeon.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;radeon-pro-wx-9100-and-radeon-p...</a>

Who is this for then? I should just go Nvidia for my gaming rig?<p>The RX 480 last year had an amazing price&#x2F;performance ratio. It was a very exciting product for the mid range gamer. It seems with Vega they are offering slightly worse than Nvidia&#x27;s high end for slightly less money.<p>Better performance at the same price would have been compelling. Slightly worse at a bargain price would have been compelling.<p>Plus, you won&#x27;t be able to buy these anyway because of mining. This is just sad. Maybe they should just remarket themselves as a mining company.

Reviewers: make sure to test mining performance of these cards. Not that we care about that, but to give us an idea of whether it&#x27;ll be possible to actually buy these things.

Vega is a failure aka bulldozer 2.0 Same performance as 1080, a year later with double the TDP. Only 30% higher than the Fury which was their high end card from 2 years ago. This whole product launch was terrible from AMD laughing at Nvidia with &quot;Poor Volta&quot; to &quot;blind tests&quot; to no live streaming of the SIGGRAPH event.

With the failure of RX Vega to meet performance expectations, I fear Nvidia has free reign now to continue their dominance in the areas of deep learning &#x2F; machine learning.<p>I was really quite optimistic, especially with their recent push with the ROCm platform that AMD has been building up. But if the hardware can&#x27;t back it up, it means little in the end. It seems like we&#x27;ll have to wait until the next generation to see if any viable contenders will show up. Disappointing to say the least.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;img.purch.com&#x2F;radeon-rx-vega&#x2F;o&#x2F;aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9HLzEvNjk3ODI1L29yaWdpbmFsL3BlcmYuanBn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;img.purch.com&#x2F;radeon-rx-vega&#x2F;o&#x2F;aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc...</a><p>So basically $700 dollar card is worse then 1080. You can buy 1080TI for around ~$900 which would completely destroy this AMD &quot;beast&quot;.<p>Not sure where the hype comes from, or am I missing something?

I really hope that AMD gets better deep learning support so it will push NVIDIA&#x27;s pricing structure down. Also, AMD&#x27;s processor lineup looks very appealing compared to Intel (which has had more pressure on their solutions also. (moved from dupe thread).

Just curious any people own $AMD shares? I was surprised to learn that AMD is the second most owned company on Robinhood trading platform behind Apple. I bought in at $10.47 after last earnings absolutely destroyed it. Just sold right before current earnings at $14.12 and looking to maybe buy back in lower than I sold for. Closed today at $13.61.

I wonder if it would be feasible to couple GPU dies similar to threadripper or EPYC.