AMD struck gold with their Polaris Pro GPUs but they still lack the power to topple NVIDIA's Pascal GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 video cards which where the Vega GPUs will come in.
Vega video cards have already been confirmed by AMD themselves but they are not coming in 2016. Instead, the AMD Vega release date is set for 2017 while the more advanced Navi GPUs will be ready by 2018.
Bad news for those waiting on the Navi chips as one leaked info now shows that it will actually be rolled out in 2019, a year later than it was promised. The good news is that AMD will reportedly bring three Vega video cards to the table instead of just two, Digital Trends has learned.
Vega is supposed to take on the current Pascal cards from NVIDIA but many expect that it will be overshadowed by the green team's new and improved GPUs by 2017. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 provide a huge leap over the previous Maxwell GTX 980 and GTX 970 cards.
AMD will reportedly use 16GB HBM2 memory for the Vega 10 video card resulting in up to 512GB/sec of memory bandwidth, The Tech Report LLC reported. The reports also claim that a Vega 20 GPU will even be more powerful with double the memory and will have support for PCIE 4.0 by then.
Navi chips will reportedly arrive in 2019 which could be the tradeoff for the three Vega video card offerings from AMD. The rumors or leaked information comes from Videocardz which has a pretty decent track record in speculating events in the graphics card industry.
AMD could offer two Navi variants namely the Navi 10 and Navi 11. No technical specs are leaked yet but the screens from the company's earlier presentations state that it could support next-gen video memory which will be better than the Vega's HBM2.
NVIDIA still has no new GPU architecture planned or announced as they seem to be milking the Pascal GPU for what it's worth. AMD has not confirmed nor deny the rumors and speculations regarding their Vega and Navi offerings which could probably mean that they have weight.