AMD Vega Updates: Are We Looking On The First Vega Architecture Leak?

AMD shows a promising start-up this year, with Ryzen being on the same hype train with Intel's Kaby Lake and all. It is also known that AMD will try to redeem the glory of its GPUs with its new Vega architecture that is said to up current AMD performance. With that being done, AMD is aiming for two birds this year.

But are we seeing the anticipated Vega GPU this early? Hot Hardware reported that a new benchmarks leak was released by an AMD employee. The leak consists of Radeon RX 580 and Radeon RX 560 benchmarks on the game "Ashes of Singularity." It is said that this leak is the first appearance of the Vega architecture that every AMD fan is waiting.

"Ashes of Singularity" is a game that needs beefy resources and runs on DirectX 12. The game was tested in both Radeon RX 580 and Radeon RX 560 and is accompanied by Intel Core i7-582K processor and a Haswell-E chip with 6 cores and 12 threads clocked at 3.3GHz and 15mb of cache.

Radeon RX 580 got an average of 72.3 frames per second, and that is a good score compared to the latest stock GPU RX 480. RX 480 averaged 29.5 fps and 23.8 fps on 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 resolutions respectively The RX 580 is so good that it is speculated it is one of the first Vega GPUs.

Kitguru reported that the same setup was also used on RX 560 which scored a good 3300 points. Now this is not as good like the result of RX 580, but it is notable that it is on similar range with NVidia's GTX 1050TI. The setup is believed to be a "Polaris Refresh" and not a sneak peek of the new Vega architecture.  It is speculated that this move is to compliment AMD's Capsaicin event on GDC 2017. In this same date, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be launched.