AMD's Capsaicin and Cream event did not reveal much of the highly-anticipated Vega GPUs, but the company hinted at its huge potential particularly for the PC gaming market. The GPUs now have an official name, the AMD Radeon RX Vega, which will be launched in the first half of the year, possibly in June or close to the actual sale of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, its rival GPU. Game developers and AMD are now collaborating and making use of the Vega graphics architecture in order to fulfill gaming visions and bring it to life. The Vega-based GPUs perfectly combines bleeding-edge hardware and immense rendering power, which brings consistent frame rate and high-quality visuals not possible with existing technologies.

AMD held off some key information regarding the AMD Vega GPU so there is no official announcement yet of an actual release date, pricing, and actual specifications. The second Capsaicin event was live-streamed yesterday where the Sunnyvale-based company detailed its plans of propelling PC gaming forward including Virtual Reality (VR). AMD's Roy Taylor, corporate vice-president of alliances spoke about the need for practical applications to leverage what the new hardware can do. This will only be possible by partnering with leading game developers.

AMD will now be closely working with Bethesda Softworks to further innovate PC gaming and accelerate game technology development. The arrival of the AMD Radeon RX Vega and the Ryzen processors provide developers with powerful pieces of hardware to bring their gaming visions to life. Bethesda president Vlatko Andonov believes that the Vega graphics architecture provides the right black canvass to help developers by enabling low-level access to the silicon, Venture Beat has learned. Bethesda Softworks is one of the leading game developers responsible for such notable titles like "The Elder Scrolls" series, "Fallout 4," "Wolfenstein," "Doom," "The New Order," and "Dishonored."

Raja Koduri, the chief architect of the Radeon Technologies group, further assert the huge potential of the Vega chips, which are equipped to meet the demands of powerful games. The Vega architecture can handle the compute demand of detailed worlds, high-resolution characters, consistent frame rates, and quality settings. Moreover, the Vega now uses a new memory technology or the high bandwidth cache controller that speeds up gaming performance the kind seen in "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided." The new HBM2 handles more compute workloads but leaves only 50 percent footprint, the potential of which goes beyond video games, Tech Radar reported.

For sure, the AMD Radeon RX Vega will figure prominently in game technology development. It is a testament to its power and functionality. Like what many had hoped, the entry of AMD into the NVIDIA dominated GPU market will alter the PC gaming market. As competition turns fierce, consumers will be at an advantage with better products featuring the latest technologies at competitive prices.

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