By Gabe Carey
AMD’s history in high-end gaming is shaky. If it’s any indication of the company’s position in the race, its place among our picks of the best graphics cards is an entry-level spot with the Radeon RX 460.
With that, it’s hard to believe that the upcoming AMD Vega, or Radeon RX Vega, cards will bear much competitive edge over, say, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. A whopping 11GB of VRAM is a tough egg to crack for a company that’s best known for budget-friendly offerings.
AMD tried its damnedest at its Capsaicin & Cream 2017 event at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this past Tuesday to keep details of its Vega graphics architecture as vague as possible. While the company revealed an unforeseen partnership with Fallout publisher Bethesda Softworks, it kept mum on concrete Vega specs and launch details.
This was intentional, of course, as the company had to know its long-time rival would make a major reveal the same night. Nevertheless, we managed to squeeze as much info on Vega and this odd partnership as we could from AMD technical marketing manager Scott Watson.
Below, Watson elucidates Vega’s to-be-instated high-bandwidth cache controller and its foray into cloud gaming, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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