AMD “Vega” GPU Handles 4K DOOM at Almost 70 FPS

AMD held an event over the weekend in Sonoma, CA where they showcased a next-generation high-end graphics card based on the “Vega” architecture. This prototype was inside of a machine running DOOM at 4K Ultra HD resolution. With the Vulkan API enabled the card was able to get close to 70 FPS!

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Not much information is known about this prototype, but some details have slipped out. Apparently that chip will have a floating point performance of 25 TFLOP/s (FP16), and 12.5 TFLOP/s (FP32, single-precision). That is higher (at least on paper) than the NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal. Other details on the specifications have emerged as well, the card will have 8GB of HBM2 memory, with a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s. This is also higher than the 480 GB/s of the NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal. We are not sure what segment AMD will place this card in.

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