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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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Steampunk said:
But again, I think it's a good thing that you buy a card and you know what you're going to get. You're no longer relying on the silicon lottery because you're getting max clockspeed guaranteed from the manufacturer. I'd rather be using my card than endlessly tweaking it because I think there's some performance left on the table.
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That's how I feel too, and it's why I always buy overclocked models in the hope that I can simply plug and play,
The Sapphire Fury Tri-x o/c edition was perfect for that, you didn't need to do anything at all, even the auto fan curve was just right with zero spin unless temps passed 50 odd degree's and when it did spin up it was as good as silent while never letting temps go beyond 78 degrees.
The best card I've ever owned even better than the 780 Classified I had a year or two before it. That's why I'll be looking at Sapphire's Vega offerings first.
 
humbug said:
I have a feeling the FE isn't actually Vega, it is just a die shrunk Fury-X for the budget professional market.
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More clutching at straws :)

Let's not forget we've had all this play out with the Fiji and the 480 releases. Right up until the point of reviews, AMD fans kept saying "the leaks are all wrong, these cards will be amazing!" The 480 was going to batter a 980ti, remember? Oh wait, it turned out to trade blows with a 970.

Now RX Vega will batter a 1080, and possibly match a 1080ti. See you in 4 weeks when it trades blows with a 1070 in some titles, and a 1080 in others, but gets absolutely nowhere *near* a 1080ti.

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FoxEye said:
More clutching at straws :)

Let's not forget we've had all this play out with the Fiji and the 480 releases. Right up until the point of reviews, AMD fans kept saying "the leaks are all wrong, these cards will be amazing!" The 480 was going to batter a 980ti, remember? Oh wait, it turned out to trade blows with a 970.

Now RX Vega will batter a 1080, and possibly match a 1080ti. See you in 4 weeks when it trades blows with a 1070 in some titles, and a 1080 in others, but gets absolutely nowhere *near* a 1080ti.

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You've gone into hyperbole mode, i never said anything about performance, all i said was i didn't think the FE was actually Vega, calm down.
 
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.
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I think we all do, We use max settings as a way to compare multiple card's easily.
The concern isn't about whether we can run a game with max setting's or not, it's about whether the gpu we've been waiting on is competitive with what's already available and whether it's a decent upgrade on what we already have, Those of us wanting a high end card got passed over last year with the promise that doing so would enable those of us with card's from the 390 up would get a decent upgrade path this year.
The claim that the Frontier does not allow us to extrapolate RX Veg'a performance is poppycock, As Pcper's Ryan told us in the live stream, It does give us an idea because he spoke to an AMD contact who told him the driver he had has all the gaming Vega tweaks currently available, That means that unless they're lying and holding something back we have got the lion's share of the performance because they're not so inept that they're going to find performance through drivers that they haven't found over the last 6 + months. We just spent the last six months with everyone going on about how the wait's good as it allows them to ensure we get top notch drivers so if Pcper's AMD contact isn't lying and we have got what he/she say's we've got I doubt anything miraculous can be found, And if they are lying and holding back performance the need to sack whoever thought it was a good idea to do so so late in the day, at the very least they should put them on latrine duty.
 
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Less of the raging character assassinations please. Again, all i said was i didn't think the FE was vega...

AMD fanboys don't own £450 nVidia GPU's. its blasphemy.

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A lot of wound licking going on here. Come on let's be honest. This sucks huge ass.

I mean for the love of God, in the promo teaser for Vega they had a sign saying "poor volta". Looks like Vega can't even match high end Pascal. Let alone volta.
 
beany_bot said:
A lot of wound licking going on here. Come on let's be honest. This sucks huge ass.

I mean for the love of God, in the promo teaser for Vega they had a sign saying "poor volta". Looks like Vega can't even match high end Pascal. Let alone volta.
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They were referring to RX Vega, not the FE card if you're talking about gaming.

You may be right, no-one knows yet, but I don't get the negative comments regarding a card that they've not even seen yet. What's another month in the spirit of things when we've all waited this long already.
 
beany_bot said:
I mean for the love of God, in the promo teaser for Vega they had a sign saying "poor volta"
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Now "poor Volta" is what fans read from the teaser.
Actually it was meant to warn us that Vega will hit power limits because of voltage it needs. Who's to say I'm wrong? Don't think amd marketing ever referred to Volta before or after.
 
TNA said:
Pretty sure it is Vega ;)

Does not mean RX Vega will be that bad.
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Exactly, We really don't know if they are sandbagging as someone put it, Too me sandbagging seems like a stupid thing to do at this stage, All it's doing is causing ill will among the user base which will continue to have a knock on negative effect towards RTG long after RX Vega is released with whatever performance it has.
It's an uphill struggle for AMD and they seem intent on making the hill steeper. It's crazy :confused:
 
Arguing one way or the other about the RX gaming performance with a card that is not even intended for gaming is premature, to insist on using the FE results as indicative of the RX gaming performance is a huge gamble, what if these results turn not to be indicative of the RX performance at all?
Suddenly you look like a ####, same goes for a lot of reviewers who currently gamble their reputation like this, PcPer.
 
Maybe RX Vega is so flipping awesome AMD can afford to sit on all the doom and gloom for another month.

Yeah, I doubt it's going to be that good either but Ryzen isn't exactly crap, is it.
 
TBH,even if you were to be pessimistic and say 20% extra performance for the RX Vega due to a better cooler and better drivers(as the top SKU will probably be water cooled),it would still make it generally quicker than a GTX1080 FE.
 
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