derekullo :
Eximo :
Vega architecture as being produced is designed as a low power chip. It doesn't demonstrate great performance per watt on the high end because it wasn't really meant for that. This is coming from a company that basically swore they weren't going to compete in the high end market a few years ago. Clearly they know where the profits really come from and it isn't big desktop graphics cards.
Should be quite good I would think. Hopefully they make it into a few NUCs, I would buy one just to mess with it.
I beg to differ on where the profits are.
If AMD can make a graphics card that is more efficient in mining ethereum than a Geforce 1070 they literally won't be able to keep them in stock.
Miners will buy as many as they can produce.
Polaris is already a huge mining. Putting more GPU for miners is not a good strategy. AMD knows that and the market will fluctuate depending on the values of these cryptocurrencies, however AI, Infinity Fabric and EMIB are the future.
Intel just understood how much AMD Infinity Fabric is a huge idea. It can reduce significantly the cost of production of complex chips with more simple ones and use the best technology available from third parties for different aspects, like GPU.
This is nothing more than good news, it means Intel is trusting AMD Vega core to be the best options for their project.