SIGGRAPH 2017: AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega

SIGGRAPH 2017: AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega, the World's Most Powerful Graphics Card under $400, and Breaks the 1TB VRAM Barrier with Radeon Pro SSG

At the annual Capsaicin SIGGRAPH event in Los Angeles, AMD strengthened its position in the high-end PC market with new Ryzen Threadripper processors and “Vega” GPUs. New products allow you to play modern games in a new way and work on creating content today and tomorrow.

Key messages from the action-packed event included:

• Launch of a family of video chips Radeon RX Vega, which will go on sale August 14th. The series includes three new products based on the “Vega” architecture. They fundamentally change the gameplay and content creation work.

• With 64 compute units, the Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition is the most powerful Radeon graphics card ever made.
• Radeon RX Vega 64 also comes with air cooling 
• The Radeon RX Vega 56 is available with a suggested price of $399 US and the Radeon RX 64 with a suggested price of $499 US.

• The Radeon Pro WX 9100 workstation graphics card delivers peak single-precision performance of up to 12,3 teraflops. It is designed for media and entertainment tasks, development and production processes.
• AMD Radeon Pro SSG, the world's first graphics card to break the terabyte VRAM barrier, comes with 2TB of VRAM for smooth performance and real-time 8K video editing.
• Starting August 10, 16- and 12-core Ryzen Threadripper processors will go on sale, for which pre-orders are already open.
• Starting August 31, the previously unannounced 8-core Ryzen Threadripper processor will be available.
• The start of the project has been announced AMD Studios, an AMD initiative in Hollywood, which will develop entertainment technologies, create hardware and software for the ever-growing needs of modern cinema.
• New platform introduced P47, developed together with Inventec. This parallel computing solution in a 2U form factor was created to perform a range of tasks: from graphical visualization to building artificial intelligence.

The high-end desktop PC market will take an incredible leap on August 10th with the launch of 16- and 12-core Ryzen Threadripper processors

• The high-performance architecture of Ryzen processors delivers uncompromising Ryzen Threadripper performance, offering expanded feature sets, increased efficiency, and better performance in the most demanding applications on your PC.

• The 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen Threadripper 1950X with a base frequency of 3,4 GHz and a boost frequency of 4,0 GHz is now available for pre-order at a suggested price of $999.
• The 12-core, 24-thread Ryzen Threadripper 1920X with a base frequency of 3,5 GHz and a boost frequency of 4,0 GHz is available for pre-order at a suggested price of $799.
• The new 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen Threadripper 1900X with a base frequency of 3,8 GHz and an increased frequency of 4,0 GHz will go on sale on August 31 at a recommended price of $549.

All AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors are supported by the extensive X399 platform ecosystem from launch on motherboards from leading manufacturers including ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI.

AMD is changing gaming enthusiast expectations with Radeon RX Vega and Radeon Packs

• The Radeon RX Vega graphics card represents the most sophisticated GPU architecture designed for gaming enthusiasts. It delivers peak performance of up to 13,7 Teraflops and can power even the most demanding games and VR applications.
• The Radeon RX Vega 56 discrete graphics card is available with a suggested price of $399 US, and the Radeon RX 64 is available with a suggested price of $499 US.
• AMD also unveiled the Radeon Pack, designed to give gamers access to the technologies they need most, as well as upgrades to enable 4K gaming at 60 frames per second. Radeon Packs offer $200 off the Samsung CF34 FreeSync 791" Curved Monitor and $100 off select Ryzen™ 7 1800X processors and X370 motherboards. $300 in total savings on equipment. In addition to Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, the discount applies to Samsung monitors with Radeon Freesync, as well as Ryzen processor and motherboard bundles. In select regions, each Radeon Pack also includes two highly anticipated games: Wolfenstein® II: The New Colossus™ and Prey® are free, with an estimated price of approximately $120.

• Radeon Red Pack includes the air-cooled Radeon RX Vega 56 for a suggested price of $499 for the entire package.
• Radeon Black Pack includes the air-cooled Radeon RX Vega 64 for a suggested price of $599 for the entire package.
• Radeon Aqua Pack includes the most powerful graphics card in the Radeon RX Vega series - the Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition at a suggested price of $699 for the entire package.

• Supports innovative graphics technologies, including Rapid Packed Math, High Bandwidth Cache Controller, as well as the new Geometry and Pixel engines will help improve performance in games that support low-level APIs, such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan. This gives developers more flexibility and allows them to design the most complex and beautiful virtual worlds.
• Availability: Radeon Packs and Radeon RX Vega graphics cards are expected to be available on August 14, 2017. More information on where to buy new items can be found at http://radeon.com/RXVega .

Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Radeon Pro SSG challenge and change the future of professional content development

• The Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Radeon Pro SSG professional graphics cards introduce cutting-edge technologies that have never been seen before in a professional environment. They break down traditional content development barriers by empowering artists, designers, and engineers to more accurately execute their vision.
• Graphics card for workstations Radeon Pro WX 9100 was designed to succeed in the most demanding media and entertainment applications, development and production processes. It is different:

• Peak performance of 12,3 teraflops with single precision
• Next-generation compute engines with Rapid Packed Math and an enhanced Enhanced Geometry pipeline for improved computing efficiency
• 16GB high-bandwidth cache based on the latest HBM2 memory with error correction function (ECC)
• 51% higher throughput, 2,6x more performance per watt, 2,3x faster performance than previous AMD graphics cards, and support for new display technologies with resolutions of 8K at 60Hz, 4K at 120Hz and DisplayPort 1.4 HDR supports up to 6 AMD Eyefinity-based displays.

• Radeon Pro SSG Featuring the same levels of performance and feature support as the Radeon Pro WX 9100, while being the world's first GPU to break the 1TB memory barrier, this graphics card comes with 2GB of graphics RAM for smooth, real-time 8K video editing.
• Prices and availability: Both video cards are expected to be available on September 13, 2017. More information can be found on the website https://pro.radeon.com/wx/9100 и https://pro.radeon.com/ssg .
• AMD also announced the availability of Radeon ProRender with open source .

Introducing AMD Studios: The company's new initiative aimed at developing film, television, VR and AR through new technologies.

• Together with leading entertainment companies and content creators, AMDStudios strives to support innovations such as artificial intelligence, super high-fidelity rendering, pre-visualization, virtual reality and post-production technologies to create a single end-to-end digital pipeline, reducing time and resource costs, and unlocking creative possibilities.
• AMD Studios combines the advanced capabilities of AMD hardware platforms with long-term relationships with content software leaders. The initiative leverages open standards and technologies to create value-added solutions such as the powerful physics-based renderer Radeon ProRender, as well as a comprehensive set of content creation tools and technologies within the GPUOpen.com platform.

 AMD and Inventec introduce the P47: 1 Petaflops of performance for the most challenging visualization and machine intelligence workloads.

• AMD and Inventec have collaborated to introduce the new P47 platform, designed for massively parallel computing. This 2U solution was created to perform a range of tasks: from graphical visualization to building machine intelligence.
• A single rack of the Inventec P47 system delivers over 1 Petaflops of performance with full 32-bit precision, delivering an astonishing 30 GigaFlops/Watt efficiency—more than a 25% improvement over select competitive supercomputing platforms.
• The rack simultaneously contains more cores, threads, compute modules, I/O ports, and memory channels than any similar system configuration ever built before.
• The P47 is expected to be available from Inventec and main distributor AMAX in the fourth quarter of this year.