AMD Discloses Vega Graphics Architecture Details And It Looks Promising

High-end GPUs are all the rage right now. They are driving deep neural net training for artificial intelligence, enabling the growing PC gaming market and next-generation virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality applications. There are only two high-end players in the GPU space, Advanced Micro Devices's Radeon group and NVIDIA. Over the past few years, AMD has dominated the gaming console market and the lower end graphics market and shared the mid-range, while NVIDIA currently owns the datacenter and professional graphics, GPU DNN-training and the highest-end gaming graphics. AMD has gained unit graphics share the past few quarters. While there are many factors that go into which vendor does what, architecture has historically been a determining factor in big swings of market share in one direction or another.