Vega and the Compute Conundrum: Past

To better understand the upcoming Vega we first have to understand the strategies that AMD have undertaken on this journey and this very much relates to the strategies NVIDIA have taken as well. Both of these companies and their graphics technologies are on the same journey and they do influence each other. Fierce competition inspires innovation leading to great leaps with each generation. This is a historic perspective on the compromises (designing hardware is all about trade-offs) that GPU architecture