AMD Vega: Pros And Cons (Until Now)

A few days ago, AMD (NYSE:AMD) has shown its new professional video/compute card lineup for the enterprise sector and it has recently shown some additional demonstrations about the new Ryzen CPUs. AMD is obviously focusing the public attention around its overall platform, which is becoming more and more interesting, and it is finally providing some very interesting product previews. In this article, I want to focus on the professional video lineup for the enterprise market, that is subdivided into three solutions with three different architectures. As I will show you, the first two solutions are not so competitive due to technical issues and/or outdated architectures, but the top solution, the MI25 powered by the VEGA 10 architecture, looks to be very interesting and competitive. Surely, the initial enthusiasm must be restrained since the architecture is quite late in comparison to Nvidia's (NASDAQ:NVDA) Pascal, while VEGA 10 will probably still show the high power consumption behavior that characterizes Polaris 10 and the entire GCN architecture.