Radeon Vega Frontier Watercooled 

AMD is promising some more fluid gameplay with RX 580 and Radeon Chill, thanks to fewer frames being queued to your display, you can reduce the response time of the frames being rendered by 64%, down to 6ms from 16.7ms..

The news headline cycle only cares about high-end products, but the sell through numbers on RX 560/550 are going to be huge in overseas markets like China, where there are tens of millions of gamers that would jump at a new $99 graphics card.

My response was met with a sly smile, and then Polaris hit the mainstream sub $300 market in a big way.

I'd love to have Vega 10 in my hands before I talk performance, but just from the technology side of things - I'm vibrating with excitement.

At a lower level, Affinity Multi-GPU also implements some rendering pipeline optimizations to get rid of some of the CPU overhead that would come from dispatching two jobs to render two frames.

With Async Shaders, AMD implements the technical means to do time warping – modifying/warping the rendered image via shaders, using the very latest tracking data to cut down on the perceived latency – and Latest Data Latch is the means to grab that tracking data.

This now makes two areas in which PC gaming continues to differentiate itself from the rest of the ecosystem that focus on displays: variable refresh and virtual reality.

This means that rather than asking for the head position of a gamer at the beginning of a render job, LiquidVR will allow the game to ask for it at the end of the rendering pipeline, which might seem counter-intuitive.