Radeon RX Vega revealed

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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.

They already use GCN architecture, but 3rd generation, the one before Polaris.
No sarcasm, I'm fine with AMD even when it's late, and it saddens me that the market didn't reward it as much as it deserved during the six years that it constantly surpassed Intel on desktop CPUs.