Radeon Senior Vice President Raja Koduri has been firing off several tweets that teased fans of the upcoming Vega 10 GPU which is expected to take on NVIDIA's GTX 1080 and GTX 1070.
AMD is expected to release the Radeon RX 480 powered by the Polaris 10 GPU on June 29. However, the card is not geared to go against the Pascal GTX 1080 or even the GTX 1070.
The Vega 10 GPU is supposed to power the high-end video card offerings from AMD. Not much have been said about the new cards except for the roadmap presented by the company when the RX 480 was released.
NVIDIA has always been ahead of the video card race when it comes to performance but AMD is still the best choice for those who are on a budget. Koduri has tweeted that he is in Shanghai this week for "Vega mode" and he also posted a celebration photo for Vega 10, TechFrag has learned.
The new GPU is expected to be launched in 2017 with HBM2 memory. AMD might still have trouble then as NVIDIA could launch new cards by then that would be more powerful such as the GTX 1080 Ti or the 10 series equivalent for TITAN.
Vega 10 could power the AMD RX 500 series cards which are rumored to feature 4096 Stream Processors, Videocardz reported. Many users are already planning to build their PCs with an AMD Zen processor and a Vega graphics card.
Koduri also said that it is a "long way to go" before the new video cards will be seen by the public. Photos of the new graphics card are expected next year together with the final specs.
It would seem that AMD is a step behind NVIDIA in the GPU race. However, the company still made a big stride in terms of power efficiency and performance upgrades.
In fact, the Radeon RX 480 could beat the GTX 1080 through a CrossFire setup as the leaked benchmarks have shown. It would also be cheaper by several hundred dollars.
AMD's Vega 10 GPU architecture is expected to have an even larger leap in performance and power efficiency. It has a huge potential to beat the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 but would it still beat the 2017 video cards from NVIDIA by then?