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AMD unwraps its Vega graphics architecture with promise of rich, lavish virtual worlds

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled the first details of its next-generation graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture, dubbed Vega, that will serve as the heart of the PC 3D graphics chips that AMD introduces in the next year or two.

The first chips based on the Vega architecture are expected to debut in the first half of 2017. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company believes Vega-based chips will compete with the very best chips that Nvidia has to offer, both with 3D graphics chips for gaming PCs and with Radeon Instinct artificial intelligence chips for servers. With Vega, AMD promises that gamers will be able to play in “rich, lavish virtual worlds.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.