AMD Vega 10, 11 release date, specs news 2016: AMD's high-powered Radeon GPUs to arrive early 2017?

Miguel Salonga Wednesday, November 02, 2016

For the past few months, it has been rumored that AMD would soon release the next batch of high-powered GPUs based on the latest Vega architecture. This year's current Radeon lineup from the OEM is powered by Polaris architecture, giving the users excellent visual experience for a reasonable price. This time, the next Vega 10-based Radeon graphics card will be a lot powerful, rivaling NVIDIA's top-tier Pascal Titan X video card.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 features 4th-gen GCN architecture and offers up to 5.8TFLOPs and 36 compute units. | Facebook/AMD

According to reports, there are leaks that AMD will soon be unveiling a new flagship Radeon Fury series graphics card, coming in right after the release of the current Polaris-based GPUs this 2016. The company is said to take the competition with NVIDIA to the next level, as their upcoming Fury GPUs will be more powerful than NVIDIA GTX Pascal Titan X.

WCCF Tech reported that the upcoming Fury Pro GPU will be packed with 4096 graphics cores and 12 teraflops of single precision compute horsepower, making it the first graphics card to give a glimpse of what the Vega 10 platform can do. The leaked details regarding the Radeon Fury Pro graphics card came from a recently discovered AMD Crimson driver code, hinting that AMD will soon unveil the latest Vega 10 architecture.

Those who will have the Vega 10-powered GPU can experience smooth desktop gaming in 4K with 4096 graphic cores, something that should be expected from a 12TFLOPS graphics card. It will be even more powerful than AMD's current Radeon RX 480 and RX 580 video cards, with pre-installed RAM of up to 16GB and 512Gbps bandwidth.

Earlier rumors suggest that the Vega 10 GPUs will arrive before the year ends, although it is also getting more likely that the next set of Radeon graphics cards will be out in the early part of 2017.

Meanwhile, along with the new Vega 10 GPUs, it is also rumored that AMD will also be showcasing new GPUs based on the much advanced Vega 11 platform next year. These powerful graphics cards will be equipped with AMD's High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology that can outmatch the GDDR5X technology of NVIDIA. All in all, the Vega 10 and 11 GPUs are expected to have at least 4096 cores with a minimum of 128 compute units.