Linux driver shows 7 cards based on silicon vega 10

If Ryzen has been the main protagonist of this first quarter of 2017, the arrival of the new high-end graphic architecture AMD Vega is expected for the second. The new Vega core graphics cards are the high-end of an AMD that has long been unable to offer an alternative to the best Nvidia Pascal cards. Sunnyvale's are preparing a significant number of models based on their most powerful architecture, the Linux driver has shown no less than seven graphics cards based on the Vega 10 core.

We will have seven cards based on Vega 10

The Vega 10 architecture will arrive loaded with important innovations to improve the performance and energy efficiency that AMD has shown with Polaris. AMD has introduced a total of 40, 000 lines of code to support its advanced new silicon along with a new BIOS and many more features. The big star of Vega 10 will be the use of the new high-performance stacked memory technology HBM2 in amounts supposedly up to 8 GB while professional cards would reach 16 GB.

Some novel features of Vega are:

• New hardware intellectual property Support for video decoding using UVD (UVD 7.0) Support for video encoding using VCE (VCE 4.0) 3D support via Radeon S Improved power management Full screen support using DC Support for SR-IOV virtualization

AMD does not forget the mid and low range, the company also works on seven Polaris-based cards in order to offer very competitive prices as well as very remarkable performance. The Radeon RX 480 has already demonstrated the good work of Polaris 10 and now it will be even better thanks to a better refinement of the manufacturing process, we can expect higher frequencies and better energy efficiency.

Vega 10 models:

{0x1002, 0x6860, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

{0x1002, 0x6861, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

{0x1002, 0x6862, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

{0x1002, 0x6863, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

{0x1002, 0x6867, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

{0x1002, 0x686c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

{0x1002, 0x687f, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_VEGA10},

Polaris 12 models:

{0x1002, 0x6980, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},

{0x1002, 0x6981, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},

{0x1002, 0x6985, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},

{0x1002, 0x6986, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},

{0x1002, 0x6987, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},

{0x1002, 0x6995, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},

{0x1002, 0x699F, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_POLARIS12},

Source: videocardz