AMD's 7nm Vega graphics cards are already available for pre-order for businesses and prosumers who want to make use of their newly die-shrunk, hyper-powered GPUs, and boat loads of HBM2, but until now that didn't have a banner to unify under. The new Vega 2 logo (via WCCFTech) is exactly that and gives us an idea of the branding that AMD is opting for with its new range of updated, if not exactly overhauled, graphics cards.
With Navi on the horizon in 2019, it's not expected that Vega 2 will be anything but a series of rendering and AI cards, but the branding is intriguing nonetheless, it shows that Vega as a brand is far from dead and is distinct enough from the upcoming Navi architecture that it deserves its own marketing materials and logo. It's the same one as the original Vega logo, but with a couple of notches in the right-hand branch of the V.
Vega 2 GPUs include the likes of the Radeon Instinct M150, and M160. They are built on the 7nm FinFet process under the Vega 20 architecture and feature up to 4,096 GPU cores, 32GB of HBM2, with clock speeds reaching as high as 1,800MHz. If the first-generation Vega cards could have clocked that highly without overheating, they'd have been monstrously powerful, suggesting that AMD did have something exciting that gamers could have potentially leveraged with Vega 2.
However, with no real suggestion that these cards are coming to gamers, that gives us hope that Navi will be rather powerful in and of itself. If Vega 20 isn't worth it, what makes Navi so special?
We'll have to wait until CES 2019 to find out, but that's not only a few weeks away.
