AMD Radeon RX Vega is going head on with NVidia GTX this July

The line-up for AMD’s premium desktop Vega GPU’s will be launching by the end of July 2017. The historically better value, cost to performance semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States headed by CEO Lisa T. Su will show what it has to offer gamers at an event called SIGGRAPH 2017.

Looking ahead, AMD is set to cause a stir and disrupt the market with its new line up of Vega GPU’s. Whether you make videos for a living or want the best gaming experience, AMD is sure to give content creators and hardware enthusiast a reason to be considered after almost half a decade of being absent in the high-end GPU market segment. Nvidia is finally going to have a competitor for its high end graphics cards.

Nvidia has been dominating High end GPU sales and has dominated market share, giving consumers only one option for higher tier powerful GPU’s which has also meant that premiums have existed for Nvidia customers. AMD may force those premiums down as well as give potential customers an alternative to Nvidia. AMD’s success will benefit both Nvidia and AMD buyers in the future as a monopoly held by either is not what drives prices down and performance up.

The new line-up of cards by AMD continue to be shrouded in mystery until SIGGRAPH which takes place 30th July – 3rd August. AMD will be extending its Radeon RX line-up. The “RX” follows the “R9” generation of cards with the “X” being the Roman numeral for 10. AMD has already released earlier this year, the RX 500 series of cards which include the RX 550, RX 560, RX 570 and RX 580 desktop graphics processors. The new RX cards have names as opposed to numerical denominations; Radeon RX Core, Radeon RX Eclipse and Radeon RX Nova.

The line up in of cards in comparison to what is being offered can be predicted as follows: GTX 1050 vs RX 560, GTX 1050 Ti vs RX 570 , GTX 1060 vs RX580, GTX 1070 vs RX Core, GTX1080 vs RX Eclipse , GTX1080 Ti vs RX Nova, NVIDIA Titan Xp vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. RX Core is rumoured to be the cheapest, RX Eclipse slightly more and RX Nova the most expensive in the set. The price of these cards is rumoured to be anywhere from $400 to $600 as the upper limit.

Much of the official pricing and performance are reliant on the new Vega architecture and drivers that come with the new cards which replaces the old Polaris architecture. The drivers will undoubtedly be updated post launch for optimisations as with all cards. The new Vega architecture is what will determine the competitiveness of these cards. On AMD’s Reddit page, “Consumer RX will be much better optimized for all the top gaming titles and flavors of RX Vega will actually be faster than Frontier version!” Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group. Raja Koduri, said in May.

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