Watch AMD’s Vega & Ryzen “Capsaicin & Cream” Live Event Here – Tune In At 10:30AM PT

We’re less than 14 hours away from AMD’s Capsaicin & Cream media event which is going to be streamed live over the web. AMD has announced that it will talk about and show more of its Ryzen CPUs as well as its next generation Radeon graphics technology, i.e. Vega.

More Of AMD’s Ryzen & An RX 500 Series Vega Sneak-Peek

The event will kick off Tuesday morning at 10:30AM PT and will be livestreamed so Radeon fans can tune in and enjoy the show over the web. At the company’s last Capsaicin event in March of last year we got a glimpse of AMD’s then yet unreleased Polaris graphics architecture. It was a sizable media event and a host of new details about the RX 400 series were revealed. At this year’s Capsiacin event AMD has announced that it will be giving its fans a sneak-peek of the “summer of Radeon”.

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AMD Capsaicin & Cream

GDC 2017: Summer of Radeon Sneak Peek

Capsaicin is the legendary component in chili peppers that adds that indescribably addictive kick to spicy foods. It elevates your favorite meal and propels your taste buds into overdrive.

We love Capsaicin because it reminds us of the magic that game and VR developers craft every day when they turn raw code into exciting, memorable and addicting experiences.

On February 28, kick off your GDC with an exclusive glimpse into the Summer of Radeon and beyond! Our feature-packed show will be highlighted by the hottest new graphics and VR technologies propelling the game industry forward – with previews of the summer’s hottest PC games and VR experiences from the biggest names in the business.

AMD’s Capsaicin Livestream kicks off at 10:30AM PT and you won’t want to miss it. Be sure to come back here for the livestream.

Livestream

Vega, AMD’s Gift To Radeon Enthusiasts – 14nm, HBM2 & GTX 1080+ Performance

Vega is Radeon Technologies Group’s all new graphics architecture that is set to power the company’s next generation family of high-end Radeon 500 series graphics cards. This is cutting edge 14nm architecture and represents the most significant leap forward for the company in half a decade and its first featuring HBM2 (2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory). The performance demos that AMD has showcased of Vega so far have painted a picture of an enthusiast class chip, the fastest that the company has ever built, going toe-to-toe with NVIDIA’s GTX 1080.

Ryzen CPUs are slated for an official launch on March 2nd while Vega GPUs are officially slated for release in the second quarter of 2017. To learn more about Vega you check out our comprehensive overview of the next generation GPU family and the brand new graphics architecture here.

AMD Vega Lineup

Graphics Card	Radeon R9 Fury X	Radeon RX 480	Radeon RX Vega Frontier Edition	Radeon Vega Pro	Radeon RX Vega (Gaming)	Radeon RX Vega Pro Duo
GPU	Fiji XT	Polaris 10	Vega 10	Vega 10	Vega 10	2x Vega 10
Process Node	28nm	14nm FinFET	FinFET	FinFET	FinFET	FinFET
Stream Processors	4096	2304	4096	3584	4096 (?)	Up to 8192
Performance	8.6 TFLOPS 8.6 (FP16) TFLOPS	5.8 TFLOPS 5.8 (FP16) TFLOPS	~13 TFLOLPS ~25 (FP16) TFLOPS	11 TFLOLPS 22 (FP16) TFLOPS	>13 TFLOLPS >25 (FP16) TFLOPS	TBA TBA
Memory	4GB HBM	8GB GDDR5	16GB HBM2	TBA	TBA	TBA
Memory Bus	4096-bit	256-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit	4096-bit
Bandwidth	512GB/s	256GB/S	480GB/S	400GB/S	TBA	TBA
TDP	275W	150W	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Launch	2015	2016	June 2017	June 2017	July 2017	TBA

AMD GDC 2017 Sessions

Session	Speaker	Room	Day/Time
D3D12 and Vulkan Done Right	Gareth Thomas (AMD)	2006	Monday 10:00-11:00
Wave Programming in D3D12 and Vulkan	David Lively (AMD) & Holger Gruen (NVIDIA)	2006	Monday 10:00-11:00
Async Compute – Deep Dive	Alex Dunn (NVIDIA) & Stephan Hodes (AMD)	2006	Monday 13:20-14:20
Cinematic Depth of Field	Karl Hillesland (AMD)	2006	Monday 16:00- 17:00