The AMD Radeon RX Vega is poised to slay the Titan X and GTX 1080 Ti with its 4K Ultra Gaming at 120 FPS. As it hits NVIDIA hard, the red team may kiss and make up with Intel. New reports hint of an AMD graphics chip in an Intel Kaby Lake-G.
NVIDIA's fastest card in the market, the GTX 1080 Ti will not hold its reign for long once AMD's RX Vega arrives, which is teased as "just around the corner." The recently leaked slides reveal a killer GPU with unparalleled clock speeds, which is two times faster than the competition. Vega was used in playing "Doom," "Sniper 4," "Deus Ex," and "AOTS" in 4K Ultra and pitted against a rival GPU most likely the GTX 1080 Ti though it was not explicitly stated in the slide.
AMD RX Vega also benefits from a revolutionary high bandwidth cache that brings 4GB of second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) and up to 11GB of G5X. Teased by AMD as having a "soul," the RX Vega uses the next-generation compute unit, its latest architecture.
Another leaked slide reveals its "brain" for the upcoming graphics card will have two times the performance-per-clock and four times the performance-per-watt. Though untested and un-benchmarked, AMD has had more than a year to tweak Vega so these claims may have its merits, wccftech reported.
Moreover, AMD RX Vega continues to hurt the competition as it features new visual effects starting with the AMD Spectrum, which expands the standard RGB color gamut via software. The AMD Gravity is a modern Physics engine like NVIDIA's PhysX which will have "Prey" as its first example. Lastly, the AMD HDAO2 is a screen-space Ambient Occlusion technique that rivals NVIDIA's extremely popular HBAO+.
As AMD seems to purposely beat NVIDIA, it may be collaborating secretly with Intel, which began licensing AMD graphics technology towards the end of 2016. Intel is reportedly working on a new chip design that is heterogeneous, meaning, embracing a variety of cores from different makers and architecture.
AMD may have something to do with Intel's new design for it is the only graphic maker that is capable of integrating HBM2 memory with graphical hardware. The Sunnyvale-based company has done this in the past with its Fury brand of graphic cards though it was first-generation of HBM.
HBM2 is featured in AMD RX Vega and Intel's adoption of the technology is indicative of an AMD-Intel collaboration. It may not be long now but an AMD GPU may be in an Intel Kaby Lake-G, an expanded version of its 7th generation processors. It is reportedly aimed for laptops and embedded solutions, Digital Trends reported.
