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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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Probably already been posted, but AMD are saying you can just use these for gaming, on the VEGA FEs product page, bottom of the DRIVER DOWNLOAD section.

DRIVER DOWNLOAD
Unlock the full potential of the Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition with Radeon™ Pro Software
The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition is designed to empower Pioneers. Those who are not afraid to lead. To properly enable you, we are providing more driver options than ever before. You can choose between compute specific drivers for ROCm, and graphics drivers that allow you to both create using Radeon™ Pro workstation capabilities and game.

  • I Am Focused on Compute Workloads
    The ROCm driver will be available for users on June 29th.
  • I Am Focused on Workstation Workloads
    If you are a workstation user on a Windows® platform, get your driver here.
    If you are a workstation user on a Linux® platform, get your driver here.
  • I Am Focused on Game Development Workloads
    Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition introduces “Gaming Mode”. This allows you to switch from Radeon™ Pro Settings to Radeon™ Settings where you can access gaming features for playtesting and performance optimization.
    If you are focused on game development on a Windows® platform, get your driver here and switch to “Gaming Mode.”
  • I Just Want to Game <-------------
    If you want to game on a Windows® platform, get your driver here and switch to “Gaming Mode.”
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https://pro.radeon.com/en-us/product/radeon-vega-frontier-edition/
 
Lord_ZED said:
To me this is FuryX 2.0 as i look at it..... I made decision and I WIL BUY IT as long as its faster than 1080 and around 500 quid.

Ill buy it just to see how crap it is :D since All i need is something faster than my overclocked 980ti as all i Play nowadays is WoW in 3D and VR games on my Oculus rift and those are optimised for lower tier GPU's anyway.


Vega THE OVERCLOCKERS DREAM o wait wrong card lol
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why not just get an AIB 1080 for £500 then? you don't have to wait for 2-3months for decent partner cards /reciews to come out, you don't have to wait for the price scalpers etc.
 
bells said:
As long as its faster than my 290 as I'm on freesync ill get it and at a fair price like between a 1070 and 1080
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bells said:
As long as its faster than my 290 as I'm on freesync ill get it and at a fair price like between a 1070 and 1080
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bells said:
As long as its faster than my 290 as I'm on freesync ill get it and at a fair price like between a 1070 and 1080
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bells said:
As long as its faster than my 290 as I'm on freesync ill get it and at a fair price like between a 1070 and 1080
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bells said:
As long as its faster than my 290 as I'm on freesync ill get it and at a fair price like between a 1070 and 1080
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bells said:
As long as its faster than my 290 as I'm on freesync ill get it and at a fair price like between a 1070 and 1080
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That's one way to get your post count up :D
 
nashathedog said:
No, It's not that at all, Raja said it is not going to be as fast as RX Vega, Titan's are about being the ultimate Gaming card which is why they released the second Pascal Titan after the 1080ti to ensure it's at the top of the gaming range.
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Have you not noticed Founders Edition and Frontier Edition have the same initials?? :p The fact of the matter is the Titan brand is the same - they are halo cards not only targeted towards gaming but towards other areas too. AMD has both Fire Pro and Pro series cards and this is why a Pro series version of this card is being launched with certification for certain packages.

The fact that AMD has already the Pro series for those people who game but want to also do non-gaming stuff makes the whole Frontier Edition thing seem almost like a ripoff of the Nvidia Founders Edition strategy.

After all why would you want to make a non-gaming card with lighting,etc in the first place?? Its the kind of thing gamers would want more than someone who uses a PC for work and probably won't care about all the fancy lighting and "premium" build quality.

Remember AMD was comparing this with the Titan Xp in none-gaming cases too,so to expect it to not be compared in games is AMD being a tad daft methinks!!

Also this could have been all avoided if AMD did what Nvidia does and sold the FE cards through their own website and also with a big disclaimer it was for non-gaming use AND for evaluating the new GCN feature set for dev purposes and that gaming performance was not final as it was a preview or early edition card. Instead they sold it through normal retailers who are not selling it as some pro card,and it can't be one as it has no software certification.

AMD should have really just dropped the gaming aspects of this card entirely and just concentrated on non-gaming,instead they showed games running on this,which you wouldn't be doing on a pro card.

If someone then bought one and it had meh gaming performance they could at least say it was not its intended usage,but the issue they talked about gaming performance and the compared it in non-gaming stuff to a Titan Xp.

The issue is they wanted to show they had a faster gaming card,when it was obviously not ready,and should have been realistic about its current performance.

All this is doing is feeding the "AMD has crap drivers" phrase,which sadly quite a few non-enthusiasts still think off when they think of AMD cards(at least from my own experience).
 
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Its bizarre really, ive read that PCper said the drivers were still debugged Fiji ones, the tiled raster., and something else is disabled, which would be even more bizarre, seen as their product page states that you can just use them for gaming (as i showed above) :confused:
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Its bizarre really, ive read that PCper said the drivers were still debugged Fiji ones, the tiled raster., and something else is disabled, which would be even more bizarre, seen as their product page states that you can just use them for gaming (as i showed above) :confused:
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Did PCper say that later in the livestream?
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Its bizarre really, ive read that PCper said the drivers were still debugged Fiji ones, the tiled raster., and something else is disabled, which would be even more bizarre, seen as their product page states that you can just use them for gaming (as i showed above) :confused:
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five8five said:
Did PCper say that later in the livestream?
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They said it right at the start when they were talking to AMD. Where AMD also confirmed the driver for Pro and Gaming mode is the exact same, and there's no performance difference between the two.

This is a mental launch, no idea what AMD are playing at here.

Also that part on the website about "I just want to game" wasn't there yesterday lol. That's a recent addition.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Its bizarre really, ive read that PCper said the drivers were still debugged Fiji ones, the tiled raster., and something else is disabled, which would be even more bizarre, seen as their product page states that you can just use them for gaming (as i showed above) :confused:
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Its another AMD graphics card launch - I expect it will be like the "overclockers dream" statement which one of their senior chaps blurted out without thinking. Its one thing about Nvidia I noticed,they launch stuff in a more business like,and more scripted way and AMD launches seem like some mad scramble with finer details being lost somewhere. They really need to polish up their launches TBH,and make sure everybody is talking from the same book,but it seems all so disorganised and hit and miss. Sadly even potentially solid products are made to look sub-par by all of this. I honestly do feel sorry for some of their engineers and with all that money they spend on the actual hardware and tech,I still don't understand how they can sleep walk into these situations.

five8five said:
:D

If it was powered by AMD it wouldn't be going as fast as initial design :D
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The cockpit display systems of almost all new generation Airbus and Boeing airliners and commercial and military airlifters are driven by AMD based systems.
 
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