AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

[Spuddy]

Apparently there is a RX490 being released in December.

I just hope it is not a dual GPU card.

Thanks, Im definitely waiting now then.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Thanks, Im definitely waiting now then.

Its from WCCTech so could be a load of horse manure too:

http://wccftech.com/radeon-rx-490-vr-4k-december/

If its true,I just hope its not a dual GPU card.

 

[Spuddy]

If its dual gpu I won't be buying either.

Heres hoping they're not that daft again.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Guaranteed to be dual 480 and that's a fail.

 

[Bonjour]

If it were to be a dual 480 we'd have seen it already, surely?

 

[triss]

If it were to be a dual 480 we'd have seen it already, surely?

+1 IMO if they were going to do this it would have been done already to give them a "top end" option

 

[Bonjour]

They could churn out a dual-GPU card, though it wouldn't be 'Vega'. It would simply be a dual-Polaris GPU to tide them over until Vega launched.

 

[Steampunk]

Dual chip card would be 495, not 490. Besides AMD know that Crossfire is hit and miss. They are not going to claim it's good for 4K, then have to deal with all the complaints of misselling when only one chip is working and the performance drops.

 

[theforce]

While it would be undeniably hard to implement l suppose, while not handle crossfire exclusively in hardware instead of software? Why don't they allocate 1 card for the left part of the screen and the second for the right instead of afr?

 

[FredFlint]

While it would be undeniably hard to implement l suppose, while not handle crossfire exclusively in hardware instead of software? Why don't they allocate 1 card for the left part of the screen and the second for the right instead of afr?

That has been tried along with every other combination, it is very difficult to get it balanced.

 

[humbug]

Star Citizen is most likely going to be pushing the latest tech and CryEngine 3 runs reasonably OK on AMD cards. ARMA3,not too sure about - its an older engine in that game,so might be still OK on Kepler. Hard to say - but I suspect from what I heard its more CPU heavy.

PS2,is more CPU limited on my system than GPU limited and that has not changed much whether I had a GTX660,GTX960 or this GTX1080.

Both Crytek and Cloud Imperium Games (Star Citizen) are actively working with AMD.

Whatever you do for Star Citizen do not skimp on VRam, don't bother with any 3 or 4GB cards, 6 or 8GB are the ones to go for.

 

[This never ends well]

Dual chip card would be 495, not 490. Besides AMD know that Crossfire is hit and miss. They are not going to claim it's good for 4K, then have to deal with all the complaints of misselling when only one chip is working and the performance drops.

This really, if it not dual i think it will have more shaders/rops i think it called, higher bus and a jump up in clock speed to around 1420hmz or more.

May even be a bigger die.

Dont amd bring a dual card out around every 2years or so.

 

[r7slayer]

Whilst we're on the subject, I currently have a 780 but going to jump to an RX480 because I've got a FreeSync monitor coming for Christmas. Will I not see much of an improvement performance wise?

You will see a small improvement yes but nothing massive performance wise. Biggest improvement will be the textures you'll be able to run as 3Gb vs 8Gb

 

[r7slayer]

How big an increase you see will depend on the game(s) you play, resolution and the 780 you are running i.e much bigger jump from an ok boosting "stock" a1 780 than one of the good boosting b1 variants.

There are different variants of 480 too. I never got how you always made out your 780 to be magical. Your 780 was faster than a 780Ti and just as fast as a 980 from how you go off. I remember when you was telling me your 780 was faster than my 290x at 1200Mhz which i found hard to believe.

 

[r7slayer]

Do you guys really think the 490 will be a dual 480 GPU? I mean Sapphire accidentally leaked it will have 8Gb of GDDR5 memory so 4Gb for each GPU which seems silly for a dual gpu card. Not to mention Polaris was only ever intended for mainstream users low to mid range. Ive never seen AMD release a dual gpu card for this audience. Dual GPU cards have always been targeted at enthusiasts being the fastest single card solution.

I can see it now... should i buy a 490 at x price? No might as well buy a 1080 for few quid more as it has more vram about same performance where xfire does work and scale. It's venturing into enthusiast territory.

 

[queamin]

For me why release a dual card polaris and a few months later release vega will be the same performance or more powerful.

 

[queamin]

If they released the dual card a month or so after 480 then maybe it would make sense.

 

[triss]

For me why release a dual card polaris and a few months later release vega will be the same performance or more powerful.

I dont see them doing it , but if they now realise Vega will be late or isn't working out how they planned then i guess a Dual 480 card even this late after the 480 may make some sense

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Do you guys really think the 490 will be a dual 480 GPU? I mean Sapphire accidentally leaked it will have 8Gb of GDDR5 memory so 4Gb for each GPU which seems silly for a dual gpu card. Not to mention Polaris was only ever intended for mainstream users low to mid range. Ive never seen AMD release a dual gpu card for this audience. Dual GPU cards have always been targeted at enthusiasts being the fastest single card solution.

I can see it now... should i buy a 490 at x price? No might as well buy a 1080 for few quid more as it has more vram about same performance where xfire does work and scale. It's venturing into enthusiast territory.

HD3870X2??

 

[Doom112]

With ultra settings 1440p getting ~130fps there on the 1070 so no way a 780 would with anything like those settings.

EDIT: Not running latest version of Vulkan though so possible it would be a bit higher with that.

The pic ,which i posted is on ultra settings and 1080p.