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Vega - Microarchitectures - AMD
| Edit Values | |
| Vega µarch | |
| General Info | |
| Arch Type | GPU |
| Designer | AMD |
| Manufacturer | GlobalFoundries |
| Introduction | 2017 |
| Process | 12 nm |
| Succession | |
Vega (also known as Graphics core next 5th generation) is both a microarchitecture and GPU family developed by AMD as a successor to the GCN4 microarchitecture and the arctic islands family.
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Codenames[edit]
| Codename | Description |
|---|---|
| Raven Ridge | Mobile processors based on Zen CPUs and a Vega GPU |
Models[edit]
| Vega IGP Models | Standards | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Compute Units | Shaders | Vulkan | Direct3D | OpenGL | OpenCL | ||||||
| Windows | Linux | Windows | Linux | HLSL | Windows | Linux | Windows | Linux | ||||
| Vega 8 | 8 | 512 | 1.1 | 12 | N/A | - | 4.6 | 4.6 | 2.2 | |||
| Vega 10 | 10 | 640 | ||||||||||
| Vega 11 | 11 | 704 | ||||||||||
| Vega Dedicated Models | Standards | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Compute Units | Shaders | Vulkan | Direct3D | OpenGL | OpenCL | ||||||
| Windows | Linux | Windows | Linux | HLSL | Windows | Linux | Windows | Linux | ||||
| Vega 56 | 56 | 3584 | 1.1 | 12 | N/A | - | 4.6 | 4.6 | 2.2 | |||
| Vega 64 | 64 | 4096 | ||||||||||
Performance[edit]
The original target of the RX Vega series was to compete with Nvidia's latest Pascal architecture. RX Vega 64 -> GTX 1080 RX Vega 56 -> GTX 1070
The performance is generally good, but when it comes to performance per watt, or PPW, Vega is outperformed by Pascal.
Hardware Accelerated Video[edit]
| [Edit] Zen with Radeon Vega Hardware Accelerated Video Capabilities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codec | Encode | Decode | |||
| Max FPS | @1080p | @1440p | @2160p | @1080p 4:2:0 | @2160p 4:2:0 |
| MPEG-2 (H.262) | 60 FPS | N/A | |||
| VC-1 | |||||
| VP9 8bpc | 240 FPS | 60 FPS | |||
| VP9 10bpc | |||||
| MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) 8bpc | 120 FPS | 60 FPS | 30 FPS | ||
| MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) 10bpc | |||||
| HEVC (H.265) 8bpc | 120 FPS | 60 FPS | 30 FPS | ||
| HEVC (H.265) 10bpc | |||||
| JPEG/MJPEG 8bpc | |||||
Process Technology[edit]
- See also: 14 nm process
Vega is manufactured on GlobalFoundries' 14 nm process.
Architecture[edit]
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Key changes from Arctic Islands[edit]
- New programmable geometry pipeline
- Up to 2x throughput
- Primitive shaders
- Improved workload balancing
- Tile based rendering
- New low precision instructions
- Half precision floating point with 2x performance
- 8 bit integer with 4x performance
- 15% higher clock speeds
- HBM 2
- 2x bandwidth
- 4x memory capacity
- New memory controller
- Render back-end is now a client of the L2 cache
- The instruction buffer has been enlarged
HBM 2[edit]
Vega makes use of 2 stacks of HBM 2 (High bandwidth memory).
| single stack | HBM 1 | HBM 2 |
|---|---|---|
| dies | 4 + 1 4 dram die, 1 control die |
2-8 + 1 2,4 or 8 dram die, 1 control die
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| Gb/die | 2Gb | 8Gb |
| total Gb | 8Gb | 16-64Gb |
| bus width | 1024 | 1024 |
| clock speed | 500 MHz | 945 MHz |
| bandwidth | 128 GB/s | 238 GB/s |
References[edit]
- AMD 2017 Financial Analyst Day, May 16, 2017
Documents[edit]
See Also[edit]
Facts about "Vega - Microarchitectures - AMD"
| codename | Vega + |
| designer | AMD + |
| first launched | 2017 + |
| full page name | amd/microarchitectures/vega + |
| instance of | microarchitecture + |
| manufacturer | GlobalFoundries + |
| microarchitecture type | GPU + |
| name | Vega + |
| process | 12 nm (0.012 μm, 1.2e-5 mm) + |