Rumor: speedier Vega chip with 16GB of RAM hits CompuBench
by from Techreport on (#2PHWS)
Lately, it seems like every morning we wake up to a single dewdrop of information about AMD's upcoming RX Vega graphics cards. This morning's sprinkling comes from an entry in the online CompuBench database suggesting the existence of a Vega development board with higher core clocks and memory pools than previously reported. The database entry shows a card with a "CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE" of 16978542592, suggesting a 16GB pool of memory, and a "CL_DEVICE_MAX_CLOCK_FREQUENCY" of 1600, which probably means a 1600 MHz core clock. Both of these figures represent big steps up from previous reports of Vega development cards clocked at 1200 MHz and with 8 GB of on-package memory.
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