Killer GPU Chipset AMD Radeon RX Vega Has Clever Features; NVIDIA Level-Up on GTX 1080 Ti Performance
ByFew details have been revealed about Radeon RX Vega during the Game Developers Conference in which the public learned some of the key features of the next AMD GPU chipsets. Since those specs are posing threats to rival, NVIDIA has reportedly boost GTX 1080 Ti performance.
AMD Radeon RX Vega Clever Features
Rumors about RX 490 and RX 580 have been scraped off when AMD announced that the new Vega-based GPU chipsets will be named Vega 10 as the high-end model and Vega 11 for low-end card. According to PC Advisor, the two cards are set to give NVIDIA some competition not only in performance but in price point as well.
To be more specific, AMD Radeon RX Vega are said to feature the following:
- Next-gen compute unit (NCU) for saving power and reduction of heat generation
- Twice faster geometry engine resulted from the full power utilization of the chips when playing game at high quality settings and high resolution
- High-bandwidth cache controller (HBCC) which features the Primitive Shader and Draw Stream Binning Rasterizer that do the necessary calculations for output pixel in the frame; thus, impacting the frame rate
- High-bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2) which does not only double the bandwidth but also expands the memory up to 8GB in size
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti Outperforms AMD Radeon RX Vega
To counter the powerful but impending AMD Radeon RX Vega, NVIDIA has reportedly boosts the performance of GTX 1080 Ti. According to GameSpot, the company is confident enough to say that the new GPU is 35 percent faster than its siblings.
The benchmark results of GTX 1080 Ti suggest that the new GPU is capable of handling 4K graphically-demanding games such as Metro Last Light, Shadow of Mordor, BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider. As a matter of fact, GTX 1080 Ti has reportedly outperform AMD's new GPU chipsets in a benchmark conducted through SiSoft Sandra compute test where NVIDIA platform is 25 percent faster than AMD's flagbearer, PCGamesN reported.
