GPUs at work in the arts

AMD blew into LA on the fresh breeze of new products and they brought the tribe of press and analysts with them. At Los Angeles, AMD celebrated the arrival of the latest products from its new Ryzen and Vega architectures. With the announcement of new professional graphics boards based on Vega, the WX9100 updates the Hawaii XW9100 with the features of Vega including the High Bandwidth Cache Controller, which provides faster access between graphics chip, memory, and system memory. Embedded software manages fine-grained memory movement beyond the WX9100’s 16GB of onboard memory. AMD also brought the Vega SSG which puts