Amd launches radeon pro vega 64 and vega 56, showing its die (updated)

AMD has officially launched its first graphics cards based on the Vega architecture, unfortunately these are professional versions that will give life to the new generation Apple Mac Pro so gamers are going to have to keep waiting like May water. AMD launches Radeon Pro Vega 64 and Vega 56.

AMD Radeon Pro Vega announced for the professional world

The new Vega 10 silicon is much larger than the Polaris chip that powers the Radeon RX 480 and RX 580, containing a total of 256 texturing units and 4, 096 stream processors divided into 64 next-generation Compute Units that are divided into two. sectors, each of which contains two Compute Engines that in turn are divided into two Compute Clusters. Each of the latter contains a total of 512 stream processors along with 32 texturing units.

Wow, now I have to contend with sarcasm from AMD marketing. Jeez…

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Update: It seems that the DIE photo is not official. Which gives further understanding of the uncertainty about this new generation of graphics cards. Let's hope AMD sheds much more light on its specs, design, and possible official release date.

On the front we see 64 renderers that are divided into 16 render back-ends connected to a 2, 048-bit HBM2 memory interface. In the image you can see the two HBM2 memory stacks at the bottom and they add up to a total of 16 GB of video memory. This is the complete Vega 10 silicon setup that brings the Radeon Pro Vega 64 to life.

Next we have the Radeon Pro Vega 56 which is cut to 56 Compute Units (they have not been very original with the names), which means a total of 3, 584 stream processors, 512 fewer than the full version of the chip. This trimmed second version is still capable of delivering 22 TFLOPS power in single precision with a bandwidth of 400GB / s and an amount of 8GB HBM2 memory.

GPU	Polaris 10 XT	Vega 10 XT
Node	14nm	14nm
Shader Engines	4	4
Stream Processors	2304	4096
performance	5.8 TFLOPS 5.8 (FP16) TFLOPS	12.5 TFLOLPS 25 (FP16) TFLOPS
ROPs	32	64
TMUs	144	256
Hardware threads	4	8
Memory interface	256-bit	2048-bit
Memory	8GB GDDR5	Up To 16GB HBM2

If you want to know more details about Vega architecture, we recommend reading the following posts:

First details of the AMD Vega 10 and Vega 20 architecture

New details of Vega architecture appear

AMD Vega 10 uses a core configuration similar to "Fiji"

Source: wccftech