These GPUs use the Graphics Core Next (GCN) 5th generation architecture, codenamed Vega, and are manufactured on 14 nm FinFET technology, developed by Samsung Electronics and licensed to GlobalFoundries.

[11][12] The Vega microarchitecture was AMD's high-end graphics cards line,[13] and is the successor to the R9 300 series enthusiast Fury products.

Vega was originally announced at AMD's CES 2017 presentation on 5 January 2017,[15] alongside the Zen line of CPUs.

Vega architecture is optimized for streaming very large datasets and can work with a variety of memory types with up to 512TB of virtual address space.

The primitive shader stage is more efficient, introduces intelligent load balancing technologies and higher throughput.

Vega brings support for Rapid Packed Math, processing two half-precision (16-bit) in the same time as a single 32-bit floating-point operation.