Allen
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Ohio USA
From Fudzilla:
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Vega 10 is the successor to Polaris and if all goes well you will see the world’s first HBM 2.0 based GPU from the house of AMD – RTG in the first part of 1H 2017, possibly even in Q1 2017.
The timeframe doesn’t come as a great surprise as significant milestones have been reached. ...
And, to repeat the news:
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...Last week reviews started complain that the Radeon RX 480’s power draw was enough to fry lower priced motherboards.. [initially] only one reviewer had noticed the problem, and it could easily have been a card issue.
But then the reviews started to confirm the problem – the 150-watt card used on average 168W under load...
This could turn out "benign" (as noted above, other cards have had this issue with no problems for users); but, heck, since I bought one, I may have jinxed them. For sure, many custom cards (like Sapphire's with 8 pin power) should have no issue -- the on board power circuits are great -- but really needed an 8 pin connector to fully meet all industry standards (as Skatezilla suggested above)
