AMD Radeon 500 series will feature Vega, Polaris GPUs

AMD has teased that it is hosting its hopefully yearly tradition of Capsaicin at GDC 2017 in just two weeks time, but now the rumor mill is churning with WCCFTech reporting that the Radeon RX 500 series will feature both Vega and Polaris GPUs.

We still don't know much about Vega, where we should hopefully see the high-end Vega 10 GPU featuring 4096 stream processors, and up to 12.5 TFLOPs of performance with 8GB of HBM2. This part will be the enthusiast card that we've all been dreaming of from AMD, but the company will also fill out the Radeon RX 500 series with Polaris GPUs, according to the site.

This makes sense, but I'd rather see Vega pushed on its own - similar to how they pushed Fiji on its own brand with Radeon R9 Fury X. AMD could name the Vega cards Radeon RX Vega 10, Radeon RX Vega 11 - and then the Polaris-powered parts Radeon RX 580, RX 570, and so on.

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Vega is powered by HBM2, so expect it to be much more expensive than the GDDR5-based parts. I'm expecting a launch price of $699 for the Vega 10 graphics card - that I so desperately want to be called Radeon RX Vega 10. The technology enthusiast inside of me wants AMD to also release a dual-GPU based on Vega with 16GB of HBM2, and I'd like it to be called the Radeon RX Vega 10 X2... mmmm.