Is Vega going to be available across the board?

[Ice_Dragon]

I am asking in regards to the iMac which currently uses Polaris and the iMac Pro will be using Vega in December when it's released. I know this is Apple related but it is also AMD related with regards to GDDR5 and HBM2.

 

[Malogeek]

Firstly, Vega only uses HBM2 so any GDDR5 supply issues (are there any? doubtful) will not impact Vega.

Secondly, iMac Pro isn't a terribly high volume market and since it's December, there should be additional production available for it over the next few months.

What you should actually be worried about is if Vega is efficient for ecoin mining. If it is then us poor consumers are boned.

 

[Ice_Dragon]

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it.

I guess what I was looking at more was could Apple adopt Vega for next time or would they likely stick with Polaris? I know again this is Apple related and iMac related but also AMD related. The top level non-pro iMac is what I have my eye on. It has the Radeon Pro 580 in it.

 

[Malogeek]

I guess what I was looking at more was could Apple adopt Vega for next time or would they likely stick with Polaris? I know again this is Apple related and iMac related but also AMD related. The top level non-pro iMac is what I have my eye on. It has the Radeon Pro 580 in it.

In the next year? No. The smaller Vega (if it exists, apparently Vega 11), hasn't even been announced yet.

 

[Ice_Dragon]

Thank you again. I wasn't planning on skipping out buying this particular iMac except if GDDR5 was near the end.