AMD's next-gen Vega 20 uses PCIe 4.0, arrives in Q3 2018

Now that the release of the Radeon RX Vega is over, the next part of the journey for AMD is to unleash custom RX Vega graphics cards with AIB partners. This is meant to be happening in late-October, and should lead through the holidays and into 2018. But what about Vega 20?

Vega 20 will be a refresh of Vega 10, which we should see AMD use the 12nm LP node, but what about performance? We don't know anything performance-wise just yet, but according to leaked slides from Informatica Cero, Vega 20 is coming in Q3 2018, and on the next-gen PCIe 4.0 standard.

PCIe 4.0 has a huge 16GT/s of bandwidth, up from the 8GT/s available on the current-gen PCIe 3.0 standard - something that was released in 2010.

We don't know anything else about Vega 20 just yet... but if Vega 20 is the refresh of Vega 10 and it does indeed roll out in Q3 2018, that means AMD will have nothing to compete against NVIDIA with for 12 more months, which is really not good at all.