Instead, as we now know, it will be making it to commercial products after all as an upgrade option for the 15-inch MacBook Pro. With everyone (sans Apple) already having their holiday 2018 products on store shelves, it seemed like AMD had all but missed their launch window, and with it, any real chance of adoption. Sometimes products hit too many problems, or can’t find interested customers it happens. Even when I reached out to them I couldn’t get a solid answer, and to be perfectly honest, I had given up on seeing the GPU. However between CES and today, AMD has been completely silent about the GPU. And of particular note, it would have a z-height of only 1.7mm, the same as AMD’s mobile Polaris 11 GPU, making it suitable for installation in relatively thin laptops. While details were scarce at the time, it was announced that it would be a smaller, lower-power GPU specifically for mobile devices. The company stated the GPU would be coming later this year, and even showed it off.
It will be arriving first as the Radeon Pro Vega 20 and Radeon Pro Vega 16, upgradable graphics options for the 15-inch MacBook Pro set to become available next month.Īs a bit of background, AMD first announced the Vega Mobile GPU – which we believe is codenamed Vega 12 – at the start of the year at AMD’s CES Tech Day. Announced by AMD at the same time, we now have confirmation that AMD’s missing mobile GPU is finally shipping. Though curious in and of itself – the MacBook Pros were just updated in July – more interesting is what they’d be refreshed with: new AMD GPUs. Buried towards the tail-end of today’s MacBook Air press release from Apple was a second announcement: that they’d be releasing a minor MacBook Pro refresh next month.
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