A new set of rumors suggests that AMD's Vega GPU's will start arriving as early as the first quarter of next year, the Vega 10 and Vega 11. By 2018, Vega 20 will be ready to roll out, and by 2019, it will be the time for Navi.
Video Cardz reported that Vega 10 will arrive by the first quarter of next year and will be using a 14nm FinFET manufacturing process and the GFX9 graphics core technology. It will feature 24 TFLOPS of 16-bit precision performance and 12 TFLOPS of single-precision performance. It will also have 8 GB or 16 GB of HBM2, and it will be capable of handling 512GB/s of memory bandwidth. The power requirement is expected to be around 225 watts.
The Vega 10 products are expected to go head-to-head with the likes of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 graphics cards.
Very little information is known for the Vega 11. It is speculated to consume around 300 watts of power, and it is said that it will go up against the GTX Titan X. The Vega 11 is rumored to arrive by the second half of 2017.
Vega 20 GPUs will only arrive by the second half of 2018. It will then be using a 7nm FinFET manufacturing process, which means that AMD will pack in more cores in the GPU. It is also rumored to carry 32 GB stacked HBM2 VRAM. Power consumption is estimated to be around 150 watts and will support PCI Express 4.0, according to Digital Trends.
After Vega, Navi is said to be next, though it will only be available by 2019 if nothing will go wrong. No particular information is available for this generation of GPU as of the moment, but it is rumored to possibly feature an HBM3 VRAM.
Right now, technology experts are waiting for an official announcement to come from AMD for confirmation. Also, the roadmap is considered for the professional market, also known as HPCs or the high-performance market. It remains unclear if the same time frame will also happen to consumer GPUs.
