AMD Radeon Vega 10 Coming Along Nicely – Raja Koduri Celebrates in China!

Raja Koduri, Senior VP and Chief Architect at AMDs Radeon Technology Group (RTG) has posted images about his trip to Shanghai on Twitter. The images and associated text make it clear that he is there celebrating with the design team responsible for the both the Polaris and Vega GPU architecture.

AMD’s upcoming Vega GPU’s will feature second generation High Bandwidth Memory (HMB2) and will likely be used for high-end graphics cards to compete with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 or GeForce GTX 1080 Ti if one were to come out. AMD currently has the Radeon R9 Fury series with the Fiji GPU competing against NVIDIA’s latest GP104 Pascal GPU powered cards in the $400-$700 graphics card market. NVIDIA has leapfrogged AMD in many performance metrics on the high-end, so all eyes will be on Vega to be competitive with NVIDIA. HMB2 is capable of Mr. Koduri noted that it would be a long time until you see Vega, so it isn’t known if it will be part of the new Radeon RX 400 series or that it will be the first product offering in the Radeon RX 500 series. Could this be the Radeon RX 490 that so many people are waiting for? If it is maybe they could show it off at CES 2017!

Here is a look at some of the engineering team over in Shanghai, China that were responsible for the development of both Polaris and Vega. AMD still has many employees working on Radeon in the United States and Canada, but the bulk of the development for the upcoming chips as been done in China (hardware engineering) and India (software development).