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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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On Fermi, the GTX470 was a pretty incredible card, and the GTX480 was still better than a 5870 in performance.

Reference coolers hampered Fermi and the power usage, but Fermi had the performance. I say all this as a launch day 5870 owner.
 
Martini1991 said:
On Fermi, the GTX470 was a pretty incredible card, and the GTX480 was still better than a 5870 in performance.

Reference coolers hampered Fermi and the power usage, but Fermi had the performance. I say all this as a launch day 5870 owner.
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I had a 5870 which I choose at the time over a 470. 2Gb of Vram and cooler running was the allure.

Incidentally the 5870 was my last AMD(ATI) GPU.
 
It was always in the back of my head that AMD might of been pushing themselves a bit to much having ryzen and vega coming out at the same time. I'm sitting back and waiting to see what happens at the end of this year/next year. I am hoping 2018 will be the year of the single gpu true 4k gaming cards :)
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
He's confirmed the driver inside is correct, and is the older one. This is the driver used on the Frontier Edition; 17.1.1, which is far older than the currently available Radeon gaming one.
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http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows 10 - 64

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Well that's all but reassuring, my fury X hasn't made leaps and bounds performance wise since January (especially when it comes to 3Dmark), ok this driver wont have some Vega optimizations, But I doubt we'll get a 10/20/30% perf boost with optimized drivers, unless the Vega Architecture is a complete overhaul, as what Zen is to Bulldozer, but I d'ont believe that to be the case... My guess is we will see a 5% boost at best with new drivers, then optimizations with new game releases. But yeah not good for the FE
 
Howling said:
I literally have no idea. There probably are settings in the miners to enable/disable mining on specific cards, but it's not something I've had to touch. And no, you don't need a bridge.
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You can specify which card will be used to mine on. So if your machine has capacity theres nothing to stop doing both at once. When 850w PSU is given for Vega, its with this scenario in mind where someone maxes every single component also a psu loses 10% every year I think.
I think you can even throttle its usage of that card.
Didnt they describe Vega as being the first GPU that will specifically allow multiple separate graphical tasks or something like that, I guess they are thinking of virtual machines with that.

Every element seems to be like they made a type of Quadro that will adapt to also game but thats a secondary backup use, they see more profit if it takes off with all this deep learning. I saw a video where a Japanese investor projects in twenty years 50% of all tasks in every type of industry across society will involve such technology. Obviously he hopes to make a lot of money in being part of growth, might be just big talk or actual giant change forthcoming.

If you want to know about miner use, compare the power usage to hash processed. If that ratio were superior then it'll see demand, the other factors are secondary
 
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