Ask Raja Koduri anything (Head of AMD's Radeon dept)

[Dr.Venkman]

We are Radeon Technologies Group at AMD, and we’re here to answer your questions...

Some interesting answers.

Consumer RX will be much better optimized for all the top gaming titles and flavors of RX Vega will actually be faster than Frontier version!

Q: Was the card used in the gaming demos a Frontier Edition? And if so, was it the water cooled one or the air cooled version? A: It was an air-cooled version

Q: Does the card profit from DX12 a lot or is DX12 performance similar to DX11 performance? A: Our architecture is very well suited for explicit APIs such as DX12 and Vulkan. If a game or a game engine prioritizes low level access to the GPU, Vega will soar. At the same time we're optimizing Vega for legacy APIs as well as much as possible.

Q: Is there a difference in performance/clock speed between the water and the air cooled version or is one just quieter/cooler? A: There will be a slight difference in clock speeds, and therefore performance as well.

[SudoSaibot]

We are Radeon Technologies Group at AMD, and we’re here to answer your questions...

Interesting...

[tiramisu]

I would love to volunteer to test 8 or 16 of these in a 4u enclosure. I suspect they would be a little loud.

It would be fun to spend evenings playing with OpenCl, Fortran and some deep learning libraries.