AMD has just announced via its eventbrite portal
that it will be holding a special live-streamed event for graphics technology
at GDC on the 28th of February. The company has not made any specific mention
of Vega in its press release, although we know the company has developer
sessions scheduled at GDC to talk specifically about Vega technologies and
architecture-sepcific optimizations. AMD engineers also have at least one
scheduled session that we know of to talk about the company’s hotly anticipated
Ryzen CPUs.
The brand new graphics architecture is set to power
the company’s next generation family of high-end Radeon graphics cards. Vega is
AMD’s latest 14nm graphics architecture and represents the most significant
leap forward for the company in half a decade. The performance demos that AMD
has showcased of Vega so far have painted a picture of an enthusiast class
chip, the fastest that the company has ever built, going toe-to-toe with
NVIDIA’s GTX 1080.
"Our feature-packed show will be highlighted by
the hottest new graphics and VR technologies propelling the game industry
forward—with previews of the summer’s hottest PC games and VR experiences from
the biggest names in the business," AMD says.
The event will take place on February 28 at the 2017
Game Developers Conference (GDC). There will be a Capsaicin livestream that
kicks off at 10:30 AM Pacific (1:30 PM Eastern) from Ruby Skye, a
theater-turned-club that is a popular destination in San Francisco, California.
With Ryzen set to release on the same day or not
long after, it's a safe bet that AMD will showcase its new CPU architecture
extensively during the event. However, there's speculation that AMD will also
use Capsaicin as a launchpad for Vega. It would probably still be another
couple of months before Vega cards released to retail, but detailing the GPU
architecture and showing off demos would certainly drum up excitement.
Ryzen CPUs are slated for an official launch on March
2nd while Vega GPUs are officially slated for release in the second quarter of
2017.
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