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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **
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I don't remember any negative issues at 7900 series launch, 290s launch was mired a bit by a batch of them that suffered with random black screens - mostly down to issues with a certain brand of the memory modules used on some I believe though in more limited numbers was seen on other cards as well.
The only thing wrong with the 7900 series launch was that they played it way too safe with clock speed. The should have released the 7900 series with clocked speeds the same as the Ghz editions that came out after the 680/670 launched. They had a chance to make a killing as those 79xx cards were amazing.
Yup, three more weeks until Siggraph and we find out the whole truth about Vega.
Lets lock the thread until then
There'll be plenty more leaks to discuss before release. Some of them will even be genuine
The main thing I remember about the 7000 series launch was the 7870 was within 5% of the GTX 580. That was pretty amazing.
This is how they stacked up at launch, trying to remove CPU bottleneck:
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Yeah, it was terrible the way they battered the GTX580/570 on performance and price, then battered the GTX680/670 when they arrived, then the GTX770/760 before ending up <20% behind the GTX780 at half the price.
Truly terrible cards XD
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At this point you sound like what you are accusing others of being, a die hard. Why do you care what NVidia's strategy is? You don't even buy GPUs that often, let alone every timw a GPU is released. Best idea is to forget all this brand loyalty crap and just buy whatever you need, when you need it. I see so many people waiting and waiting and waiting, while I got my 1080 in June last year ... Saving a few quid here and there does not justify a long wait for anything ... NVidia is selling cards, either buy them or not. What's the problem?
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As has been said many times before, the Steam hardware survey doesn't give the full picture.
No, it may be genuine RX Vega with 8GB, but its performance is not better than FE (running same clocks)
The last time Steam gave me the survey was when I had a GTX 980 years ago. :/
Anyone know the frequency at which the survey is sent out?
Good for them. Won't make a difference to my decision. All AMD need to do is price it right and I and many others here will buy happily
Price it wrong and Volta it will be.
Not filled one in many years.
Of course it the RX Vega, it was a response to Mauller's comment, that I forgot to quote :
"That apparent leaked RX Vega score is no different to what can be achieved with Vega FE, Define the guy who first benchmarked one got scores around that when he managed to stabalise the clocks to 1600MHz. All of his scores are on Videocards.
which makes me thinks its just a Vega FE thats not being recognised properly."
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Lol lool
Massive defensive league here guys.
Chill out dude
For one I don't care about GPU war mine is better than you blah blah crap
Nor do I care about what nvidia release I won't buy but that doesn't stop me from reading what's happening in the PC hardware space and for me to have my own saying. And what I said is true anyone defending nvidia call to release the Ti so soon after the Titan xp is a die hard fan. This isn't good practice but yet you have people still bending over backwards and nvidia will continue to do it. This isn't the first time Nvidia has done this to the nvidia premium user Base "Titan" paying this money for a GPU you should only have the next titan to worry about not a much lower priced GPU matching its performance so close to release.
Brand loyalty? Mate I would happily buy nvidia GPU tomorrow of they matched my requirements I don't agree how Nvidia business works and its the reason I won't give them my money simple has that nothing a against the GPUs themselves they excellent.
I buy a GPU when I need to and for the matter of fact this is the longest I haven't bought a new GPU for. It still hasn't stopped me enjoying pc gaming and all the latest releases
The problem seems to be people are going on performance justification as the one and only reason why people should choose an Nvidia card over AMD's card. It has absolutely nothing to do with brand loyalty in most peoples cases, and far more than just performance has to be taken into consideration when choosing a GPU.
I'm waiting for the RX Vega because just over a month ago I was using my system which consisted of an old Intel i5 with 8gb ram and a GTX 970 running a 1080p TN g-sync monitor
I wanted to upgrade to a CPU with more cores, more RAM, and an adaptive refresh rate ultrawide 1440p monitor. I ended up with a R5 1600 cpu with 16Gb RAM. When looking for the monitor with either g-sync or freesync I saw a £620 34" 1440p IPS 75hz freesync monitor, the equivalent (or closest) g-sync was a £900 Acer 34" 1440p 100hz monitor.
I could not justify the nearly £300 difference for g-sync over freesync, even having previously experienced how good g-sync was on my 1080p monitor. - This now means for me to enable freesync I need a graphics card that supports adaptive refresh, so that rules out anything Nvidia have to offer.
If Nvidia decided to support freesync/adaptive sync then I would happily consider them, but they won't and so now I will wait for what AMD have to offer. It has nothing to do with me being an AMD fanboy or brand loyalty. It was simply a matter of cost. That £300 saved has now been put towards an AMD GPU to power my new monitor.
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I can't see any 3dmark11 scores over at VideoCardz from Define, Just a load of Firestrike scores at different clocks.
https://videocardz.com/70541/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-lands-in-the-hands-of-the-first-owner
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It's all my fault, They asked me to do the survey a couple of weeks ago and it's the first time I've been asked in 3 or 4 years, I'd just bought a 1060 as a temp until Vega lands. Sorry guy's
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