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« on: August 25, 2017, 04:05:20 pm »

The AMD Vega GPU: A sign of things to come for the iMac Pro?

There have been some mixed reactions on the release of AMD's Vega. How will this affect the iMac Pro?

Apple's announced an upcoming iMac Pro at WWDC 2017 this year and that announcement has certainly spurred excitement in the creative/professional sector. With up to 18 CPU cores, 4.5 GHz boost, 42MB of cache, and a new Radeon Pro graphics card, what's not to be excited about?

Well, if you've read some of the early reviews for the discrete Radeon Vega GPU — newly available for Windows and Linux — there's talk of it being too late, expensive, power hungry, and underperforming. Will this news over the Vega GPU portend similar moaning and groaning over the iMac Pro's Radeon Pro Vega GPU? Not quite.

What is the Radeon Pro Vega GPU?

Vega is the latest graphics architecture from AMD. The Radeon Pro Vega GPU will be the internal GPU available for the soon-to-be-released iMac Pro. A GPU creates all of the on-screen visuals, such as the ones you see in complex 3D game...

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