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PC - Radeon RX Vega revealed - View Post

Alby_da_Wolf said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

So do I

That said, I fear we will have to wait for a long while, at least on desktop PCs. AMD just finally releases the Bristol Ridge APUs on the consumer desktop market, so Raven Ridge certainly won't come out there until spring next year earliest. At least it's mobile version is supposed to come out during the holiday season.

Yeah. the good news is that it looks like AMD decided to skip Polaris for the next APU GPUs and go directly to Vega, as it gives both AMD and users better performances and power consumption, and for AMD, probably saving silicon for the same desired performance or getting more performances for the same silicon, depending on the model.
Or maybe AMD will make us wait even more, skipping Vega too, to use Navi and the new 7nm process and save even more silicon.   

Polaris is used in Carrizo/Bristol Ridge, they didn't skip it

No need to be so sarcastic though, pretty sure nobody at AMD expected Vega to be that late. And to me, the reason is actually not the chip itself, but the drivers because many of the new features of Vega are still not unlocked in the driver.