Quote from: m1n1ngP4d4w4n on January 03, 2017, 12:01:25 PM

Quote from: Lucky - Luciano on January 03, 2017, 10:28:46 AM

Quote from: QuintLeo on January 03, 2017, 07:35:15 AM

Vega uses the same technology as the current Polaris - except for the use of HBM memory instead of GDDR.

It's more the "next generation of Fury" than "the next generation of Polaris".
Think "Fury/FuryX/Nano" vs "R9 390/390x".

The RX 490 (if it actually appears) still looks more likely to be a "dual Polaris" card than anything else.

Architecture is not the same. These are the latest information on the architecture:

" Lets start off with a simple summary of Vegas key features. This should help paint a picture of how much of a drastic step forward the new architecture is compared to Polaris.

Vega Architecture

4x Power Efficiency
2x Peak Throughput/Performance Per Clock
High Bandwidth Cache
2x Bandwidth per pin
8x Capacity Per stack ( 2nd Generation High Bandwidth Memory )
512TB Virtual Address Space
Next Generation Compute Engine
Next Generation Pixel Engine
Next Compute Unit Architecture
Rapid Packed Math
Draw Stream Binning Rasterizer
Primitive Shaders " .

Question now will be, "Are they going to be good mining cards?"

We saw how a new memory architecture made the card hard to exploit with GTX 1080, true that AMD minerbase is alot bigger, but wait & see

That is a good question.

How long do we have to wait?