[Manuel Calavera]

AMD’s Raven Ridge APUs have the Vega 11 GPU and the “11” stands for the 11 compute units in the chip. Similarly, there are other SKUs of the Vega chip featuring 8, 10, 5, etc CUs that are labeled as Vega 8, Vega 10, Vega 5. I guess it was misinterpreted as the smallest of the two Vega chips as we thought of Polaris (10/11) but that was never the case. That would imply that we may never see a Vega GPU aside from the high-end Vega 64 and Vega 56 offerings but if Vega can scale from 2 CUs to all the way up to 64 CUs on RX Vega 64, then there’s no doubt that AMD cannot offer a discrete board with lower CU count in the budget segment.

AMD is offering a 24 CU Vega part inside the Intel Kaby Lake-G series multi-die processor and there’s rumored to be another one with even more CUs enabled. It will be interesting to see more Vega offerings in the future, especially when Vega gets enhanced 7nm process update in the coming year as leaked slides indicated.