Amd vega 10 with 8 gb hbm2 was the one used in the ces, more powerful than gtx 1080

AMD fans expected that a lot of data on the new cards would be shown at the presentation of its new Vega architecture at CES 2017. In the end, everything was limited to a slide presentation, although behind the scenes, quite interesting information was leaked.

AMD showed a team with a Ryzen processor and a Vega graphics card running the DOOM game at 4K resolution and a speed above 60 FPS, then it emerged that the team used was mounting a Vega 10 silicon- based card and with a total of 8 GB of HBM2 video memory. In an interview with PCWorld, Raja Koduri, president of the Radeon Technologies Group, stated that the card used in the demonstration is capable of "taking the pants off" the GeForce GTX 1080 under Vulkan and that even under OpenGl it is still more powerful than the Nvidia's solution.

Let's not forget that the game ran at the demanding 4K resolution that is always favorable to AMD cards, it would have to be seen what happens in lower resolutions although nobody is going to buy a Vega to play 1080p, of course.

Raja Koduri has been confident that 2017 will be a much more favorable year for games using the modern Vulkan and DirectX 12 APIs, both of which have more than proven to be more favorable to AMD than Nvidia.

In the event, several photos were taken of the equipment used, although the graphics card was covered to avoid the eyes of the most curious, let us not forget that it is an engineering sample at an early stage of its development.

Source: wccftech