Advance Micro Device (AMD) is planning to introduce a new series of Radeon RX 500 chips. They will come in two variants, namely HBM2 and GDDR5/X models.
The AMD RX 500 card will pertain to the enthusiast and the general consumer markets as well. The enthusiast version will be of 16GB capacity and have 2048-bit memory bus or 2 HBM2 stacks at 1000MHz. The general consumer version will have 4 HBM2 stacks or 4096-bit memory bus at 500 MHz, according to WCCF Tech.
The new AMD GPU series will be based on the Vega 10 architecture and is expected to release in 2017. As there is not much space in the Radeon RX 400 series, so AMD has been left with not much option but to debut an entirely new series. This new series will have several graphical processing unit cards based on the power packed Vega architecture.
AMD may also pack the new series with the latest technologically advanced Next Compute Unit (NCU.) Radeon RX 500 series may also come bundled with a controller and a cache with a high band width.
On the other hand, AMD also plans to release a new chip Vega 10. It will require TDP of 225W and have 16 GB HBM2. It will also boast of 24 TFLOP's of half-precision and 12 TFLOP's of single precision compute performance along with a 4096 stream processor.
This new chip is going to appeal to all the heavy duty gamers, who will appreciate its Virtual Reality gaming features. It is definitely going to be the graphical processing unit of choice in all the gaming consoles, which are expected to launch soon.
In keeping with the demand from the hard-core gaming industry and the general consumer, the AMD Vega 10 will also have two variants. The first variant will appeal to the hard-end gamers and the flagship devices as it is of 16 GB.
The second model will be of 8 GB and it has been specifically designed for the general consumer and the low-end devices, according to Segment Next. It will also have the HBM2 technology along with DOOM at 4K and the Ultra Setting at 70 Frames per second.
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