Quoting: knroSo, just be thankful we have developers who are willing to release games for this sub 1% market.

Linux market is not sub 1%. Just stop repeating this.

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This [External Link] doesn't sound very promising for those who wanted to get Vega refresh this year:

Also on the list is perhaps the surprise announcement of the day: AMD will be bringing Vega to 7nm, with customer sampling expected to start in 2018. This ultimately means that Vega on 7nm will hit the shelves in 2019, but there is a twist to the tale. The first products off the line will be solely for the Radeon Instinct family and machine learning. Users who want 7nm desktop-class products will have to wait a little longer, but it does give an indication of how GlobalFoundries 7nm process is coming along.
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As mentioned above, AMD plans to start sampling a machine learning focused version of Vega on 7nm much later in 2018, where ‘sampling’ in this case means pre-testing to select partners. This will likely lead to a Radeon Instinct product, initially perhaps with a small die size, being made available in early 2019. The big product on 7nm, however, will be AMD’s Navi GPU architecture. AMD did not go into specific details, but we suspect that Navi will be permeating through most of AMD’s discrete product line portfolio, as well as being implemented into APUs with Zen 2 processor cores. Given the timeframe here, Navi is certainly a 2019 product, although it might be debatable if that means early or late 2019.

Looks like it's another year to wait. Well, my current RX 480 performs well, even though some games like TW3 could benefit from stronger card.

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Interesting. So it looks like they are skipping 12nm Vega, and going to 7nm right away.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemTyranny is 32bit only?

Not anymore. They released it in 64-bit which fixed (or rather helped to avoid) a long standing and common lack of LFS bug of their 32-bit release:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/bug-linux-tyranny-fails-on-large-xfs-partition.982757/ [External Link]

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Quoting: omer666I thought they were rather supposed to unveil Navi sometime soon... aren't they?

Navi is planned, but it won't come out until 2019 probably. Too long of a wait for those who were disappointed with bad initial Vega release (too expensive / too power hungry). I.e. it would mean basically another year without proper competition with high end Nvidia. Not a good situation. So I think Vega refresh should be coming in H1 2018.

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Quoting: TrumpWonder if zen2 will use the same socket or if we will have to buy new mobo

It should use the same socket, but motherboards obviously would need firmware updates.

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Quoting: liamdaweNone of the press slides I was sent even hinted at a refresh of Vega.

Yep, and that's a concern.

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I'm more interested in when refresh of desktop Vega GPUs is coming. It's clearly needed to make AMD competitive again.

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I don't think this Steam survey is particularly news worthy.

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I'm waiting for GOG releases of their recent games.

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