AMD just hosted its Tech Summit in China, with CEO Lisa Su taking to the stage to not only announce worldwide availability of its Ryzen 5 CPUs imminently, but also teasing a full Radeon RX Vega reveal coming very soon indeed. From the sounds of things AMD is ramping up to reveal Radeon RX Vega within a matter of weeks.

Once Su had set the tone, Scott Herkelman, VP of AMD, came onstage and confirmed the Radeon RX Vega flagship will be available in two different variants - 4GB and 8GB. Interestingly both versions will use the new second generation HBM2, offering improved memory bandwidth and greater power efficiency than the first gen HBM used in the Fury chips.

This not only means the Radeon RX Vega graphics cards will be fast, but it’s also likely they’ll be much smaller too, particularly in comparison to the hefty Polaris RX 480’s which sported 8GB GDDR5 memory.

While 4GB HBM2 may not sound a great deal in theory, in practice it’s multitudes more than the equivalent of GDDR5 or GDDR5X memory. Herkelman intimated the 4GB Vega graphics card could even have the memory bandwidth equivalent of Nvidia’s 11GB GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. This will mean a bit of a rethinking in terms of how game system requirements are delivered, with Vega owners actually needing much less VRAM than other graphics card users.

At the moment it’s now become a case of trying to pin down just when Vega is going to be in our hands. The smart money has always been on a late May / early June launch to coincide with Computex, however AMD has thrown a bit of a spanner in the works by advertising RX Vega alongside Arkane’s Prey. The ad says “Vega is coming. Be prepared”. What’s interesting is that Prey is out on May 5th, just over five weeks away. Vega coming out after Prey strikes me as the opposite of being prepared. What are the chances we could see Vega launch in a little over a month’s time?

With the capability of Radeon RX Vega beginning to take shape, the next all important question is price. How much do you think the 4GB and 8GB models of the Radeon RX Vega are going to cost? And what’s your best guess for launch date? Let us know!