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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

On or off the hype train?

  • (off) Train has derailed

    Votes: 207 39.2%

  • (on) Overcrowding, standing room only

    Votes: 100 18.9%

  • (never ever got on) Chinese escalator

    Votes: 221 41.9%
  • Total voters
    528
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TNA said:
Yep, this is what I am saying also. Until RX Vega reviews come out in August with proper drivers and reviews, I will not take notice of any results.

Drivers can make a big difference in performance and price can make a big difference in whether a card is seen as a fail or not.
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AMD have had 9 months or more to working on drivers. I don't really see what 1 more month will do.
 
Toss3 said:
How about waiting for the official launch? Drivers clearly aren't ready for primetime yet. Without proper driver support most of the new features probably aren't working which is why we are seeing Fury X-levels of performance.
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Because AMD have created this situation with their amateur hour display again.
 
JediFragger said:
I'm still ****ing dumbfounded by this tbh!
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TheRealDeal said:
Hard not to be as it's not adding up.
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I know right. They caused this mess, and it's being amplified through social networking, and online forums.

They should have launched it as a workstation card, with a clause that the gaming drivers are incomplete. Then sampled major reviewers with it; and only letting it be sold end of this week, or early next week.

Instead we have a card that's in between Quadro P5000 and P6000 for workstation tasks, and reports show no difference between Pro mode and gaming mode, bar some games failing to render completely.

Nevermind no official reviews from respectable places. This is a farce.
 
Sorry but again what........

The guy's PC is perfectly good, people are acting like he has a pentium CPU and 4GB of RAM...... he has an i7 4790k, 16gb ram, m.2 256GB card etc. Hardly a slouch lol...... His PSU is not a problem as already posted a few pages back unless it is a crap or/and very old PSU but again, the pc would be turning off or something if there was an issue.....

He has also posted all the screenshots of cpuz, gpuz etc.

What else will 'pro' reviewers do differently other than placing the card in an open case system with a bare minimum clean install of windows and running it with with £500+ CPU, £200+ mb etc? Which is not the norm for most PC gaming systems.....

Stop making out like benching/gaming with an overlay on is rocket science :p

The only thing that could be messed up on his end are drivers.
 
D.P. said:
I don't think it dropped.
Remember, according to the AMD official benchmarks the FuryX was going to be way faster the 980ti in their own benchmarks.

If AMD carefully chose specific games and specific settings that highlighted best possible performance and then someone test with other settings and performance changes, that doesn't mean the drivers got worse.

Rather it looks like performance hasnt changed much. Perhaps they found a hardware bug they had hoped to fix in drivers but couldn't.
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Check the doom demo from AMD, it showed 60+ fps other than a couple of very small drops. Suddenly now the FE can't even get 50? Something is up.
 
And yes as per usual people always under estimate driver and software optimisation, not just for GPUs but for every hardware device and piece of software out there.

They can make or break a product.
 
rip-the-jacker said:
I know no one knows for sure atm, but im rocking a 650W G2 EVGA PSU. Will that run one of the new RX VEGA cards? Surely?
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Nah sorry but you need 1000w PSU bare minimum!!!

Of course it will be enough unless you have like 6+ hard drives connected + 3 PCI devices with a crazy high CPU overclock.....
 
The Artfull Bodger said:
So this is a workstation esq card? Or am I mistaken? It performs similar to a p5000 for half the price for these tasks? Isn't the p5000 similar to a gtx 1080 for gaming?
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That's correct, and in some of the workstation tests it's ahead of the P6000 (Titan X), as well. The card has a "gaming mode", but the one "reviewer" reported that in some cases scenes in games failed to render completely. So drivers?

We need to wait for proper reputable sources for verification on it all though.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
Check the doom demo from AMD, it showed 60+ fps other than a couple of very small drops. Suddenly now the FE can't even get 50? Something is up.
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this is actually pretty strong evidence that drivers aren't working correctly. Maybe Amd intentionally gimped Fe so it won't turn into some beast gpu that can do both pro and gaming on higher levels, therefor killing their pro line. Makes sense actually, imagine Titan being as good as Quadro line in pro apps while performing beastly in games. Nobody in their right mind would buy Quadro
 
D.P. said:
AMD have had 9 months or more to working on drivers. I don't really see what 1 more month will do.
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Be that as it may. It makes no sense to me to get all wound up about the FE results unless it is the FE card you are intending to buy. I would rather ignore it all and wait to see proper reviews for the card I am actually interested in buying.

If RX Vega is disappointing in both price and performance, then they won't get our money, simples.
 
Erik13 said:
this is actually pretty strong evidence that drivers aren't working correctly. Maybe Amd intentionally gimped Fe so it won't turn into some beast gpu that can do both pro and gaming on higher levels, therefor killing their pro line. Makes sense actually, imagine Titan being as good as Quadro line in pro apps while performing beastly in games. Nobody in their right mind would buy Quadro
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But the Pro part of the card isn't certified so if you use Pro applications that need certification you have to look at the card that's going to be released later in the year. What i'm trying to say it's not a true Pro card.
 
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