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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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alec said:
Settings are there to be tweaked. Max settings are not a Holy Grail. I prefer to trade a bit of image quality to get smooth framerates. But thats me.
I was referring to future with Volta it will probably be simpler to keep steady 144. For RX480 freesync is definitely the way to go
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I agree but it's a balancing act and depends on the game. For Overwatch I turn off/down a couple of key settings to boost FPS significantly. For an RPG, I leave it at max settings and suffer the occassional drops to 50-60 FPS.
 
Kaapstad said:
This thread is getting really silly !!!

We have not seen a gaming card yet

We therefore have not seen drivers for it yet

We really do need to wait for a proper review of the actual gaming card, anything else is irrelevant.

Testing a professional card for gaming is a bit like driving a Rolls Royce off road, totally pointless.:)
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JediFragger said:
Mate of mine has just gotten an Acer XB270HU and he has a 970. It's managing stuff on Medium....just!

Go Gsync, you won't regret it tbh.
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Ive had that monitor and it gave me a headache.. im not joking. I found a small time youtuber saying the same thing. Just something to be aware of if you are sensitive to blur or whatever it is that cause it. Im pretty sure it wont affect 99% of its user base though.
 
Phixsator said:
Ive had that monitor and it gave me a headache.. im not joking. I found a small time youtuber saying the same thing. Just something to be aware of if you are sensitive to blur. Im pretty sure it wont affect 99% of its user base though.
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Must have been a bad batch of panels or something, I gamed on it for hours at a time with no issue (I had it before him, was a bargain at £200 and hard to say no to. I'm just happy he got an upgrade out of it too).
 
TheRealDeal said:
Bad move by the looks of it. As at this Rate i only see Nvidia as an option as if i am shelling out it won't be on this performance.
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Nah, when i sat back thinking about it (while i was waiting for the Ti), it just hit me, theres no point, as i hardly game now, and when i do, i either go back through the HL2s, Metro games, Fear games, or play other old ones ive got, that i havn't done (im currently going through Bioshock Remastered at the minute), and my Fury plays them all fine, so i don't need to upgrade. :D

Furys looking like its going to be my last ever card :p
 
Kaapstad said:
This thread is getting really silly !!!

We have not seen a gaming card yet

We therefore have not seen drivers for it yet

We really do need to wait for a proper review of the actual gaming card, anything else is irrelevant.

Testing a professional card for gaming is a bit like driving a Rolls Royce off road, totally pointless.:)
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When I wrote something similar few pages back, I was classed as an AMD fanboy not seeing the terrible truth........
 
Kaapstad said:
This thread is getting really silly !!!

We have not seen a gaming card yet

We therefore have not seen drivers for it yet

We really do need to wait for a proper review of the actual gaming card, anything else is irrelevant.

Testing a professional card for gaming is a bit like driving a Rolls Royce off road, totally pointless.:)
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Yeah it's pretty obvious from the results vs the potential of the specs that the drivers aren't finished yet.

We just have to sit tight and wait 4 weeks, as annoying as that is.
 
Personally, I'm quietly confident that AMD have a trick up their sleeves.

All this negativity surrounding the FE, I'm pretty sure they'd have been all out trying to defend its performance if they didn't have an ace up their sleeve.

I say expect to be pleasantly surprised when RX Vega hits the shelves.

Had a Sapphire RX480 since launch and it's serving me well playing all the great PC games that I've missed out on over the past few years as a PS4 owner. Not just PC exclusives either, there have been some real bargains on Steam that I'm still catching up on. Wasn't going to upgrade to Vega but now being the owner of a 4K HDR enabled TV and gaming from the sofa, I'll be tempted if the price is right. I'll be very surprised if RX Vega doesn't undercut Nvidia's latest and greatest, in the very least for the short term.

Wish people would stop panicking TBH.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Nah, when i sat back thinking about it (while i was waiting for the Ti), it just hit me, theres no point, as i hardly game now, and when i do, i either go back through the HL2s, Metro games, Fear games, or play other old ones ive got, that i havn't done (im currently going through Bioshock Remastered at the minute), and my Fury plays them all fine, so i don't need to upgrade. :D

Furys looking like its going to be my last ever card :p
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Hey man! I play tons of WoW, I need some more power! Impossible to keep them high jiggahertz!

Also compute tests show FE is meh compared to Fury X and 1080 somehow, despite all those Floppers it has.

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AllBodies said:
Yeah it's pretty obvious from the results vs the potential of the specs that the drivers aren't finished yet.

We just have to sit tight and wait 4 weeks, as annoying as that is.
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Thing is, from the specs, if they haven't been able to improve IPC it is just a ~ 1382MHz clocked Fury X

It seems 1600mhz won't be what vega can sustain all the time - http://www.anandtech.com/show/11583...hes-air-cooled-for-999-liquid-cooled-for-1499

Judging by the power use and that note that 1600mhz boost won't be a sustained clock, overclocking will likely be limited.

So essentially, even the specs are starting to hint that the FE performance might not be far from what we are going to get with the RX card.

I have no doubt that the the RX card will be faster in games, but i have my doubts as to whether it is realistically going to end up much faster than a 1080.
 
I have a feeling the FE isn't actually Vega, it is just a die shrunk Fury-X for the budget professional market.
 
This wait is killing me, and my bank balance. The longer I wait the more expensive GPU's get. I can pick up a 1070 now for £355, but what if VEGA turns out good and £400 at the end of the month... it's only a few weeks wait to see, but if I wait it's almost certain that all the 1070's will be £400+...
 
HeX said:
This wait is killing me, and my bank balance. The longer I wait the more expensive GPU's get. I can pick up a 1070 now for £355, but what if VEGA turns out good and £400 at the end of the month... it's only a few weeks wait to see, but if I wait it's almost certain that all the 1070's will be £400+...
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At this point for £400 I would be either waiting for Vega or Volta. Pascal is old news now and Volta is not far away.
 
Jono8 said:
Thing is, from the specs, if they haven't been able to improve IPC it is just a ~ 1382MHz clocked Fury X

It seems 1600mhz won't be what vega can sustain all the time - http://www.anandtech.com/show/11583...hes-air-cooled-for-999-liquid-cooled-for-1499

Judging by the power use and that note that 1600mhz boost won't be a sustained clock, overclocking will likely be limited.

So essentially, even the specs are starting to hint that the FE performance might not be far from what we are going to get with the RX card.

I have no doubt that the the RX card will be faster in games, but i have my doubts as to whether it is realistically going to end up much faster than a 1080.
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AIB models will easily sustain 1600MHz, much of it is thermal throttling. The heatsink on the blower Vega FE is tiny like the reference nvidia heatsink, even if it has a vapour chamber, cooling area still trumps all.
 
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