By Darren Allan
While we’ve had lots of juicy news from AMD regarding monster Ryzen processors and gaming laptops at Computex, the only disappointing sniff of information on the next-gen Vega graphics card front is that the consumer models won’t be out for quite some time yet (contrary to previous rumors that we’d see a Vega launch at Computex).
In fact, AMD said that the hotly anticipated Radeon RX Vega GPUs destined for mainstream PCs won’t be launched until SIGGRAPH 2017, which takes place in Los Angeles, kicking off on July 30.
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So, the earliest we’ll see these graphics cards is the very end of July, and that might just be an initial reveal of the hardware, as opposed to an actual launch – the RX Vega cards may not hit the shelves until several weeks after. So these GPUs might not be on sale until mid-August, or possibly even later.
Fingers crossed that the reveal and actual launch of the Vega cards happens simultaneously, or at least with a very small gap.
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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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