Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[JediFragger]

There goes all the Vega stock and RRP

 

[Rroff]

There goes all the Vega stock and RRP

That explains why they don't give a **** about gaming performance

 

[Jono8]

This guy optimized monero Vega, supposedly his "Vega FE is twice as profitable mining Monero as a GTX 1080Ti mining Ethereum"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6lz1q6/vega_owners_club/djxpnhn/

Lol. Oh well, there goes that then.

 

[pieman109]

I can see gpu pricing going out of control if what I've read here doesn't change.

 

[Erik13]

Not being a rabid Nvidia fanboi means being biased? Ok.

He is actually fair maybe a little bit leaning towards Amd but not much

AMD and Nvidia are probably working on segmenting mining away, somehow.

In the mean time if Vega FE is profitable than AMD will happily skew production to that line, starving the gaming market but increasing their revenue...

Hopefully Lisa is smart enough to make that decision. This is gold mine considering Fe price

 

[Rroff]

He is actually fair maybe a little bit leaning towards Amd but not much

Largely he plays his audience - he was very very pro-AMD for awhile but with the flow of things lately has taken a more central approach (partly I think due to picking up a much larger audience lately and wanting to keep it so trying not to alienate either extreme) - I suspect it will modify again depending on trends, etc. down the line.

 

[TNA]

Largely he plays his audience - he was very very pro-AMD for awhile but with the flow of things lately has taken a more central approach (partly I think due to picking up a much larger audience lately and wanting to keep it so trying not to alienate either extreme) - I suspect it will modify again depending on trends, etc. down the line.

+1

Not that I listen to it, just what I hear from what people say here. These days I just wait for cold hard facts rather than lapping up rumours and speculation. I get enough of that just browsing this thread anyway

 

[benjii]

+1

Not that I listen to it, just what I hear from what people say here. These days I just wait for cold hard facts rather than lapping up rumours and speculation. I get enough of that just browsing this thread anyway

I'm surprised you're in this thread then.

It's amazing how many posts this and the last thread has generated when you consider how little solid information there has been.

 

[AllBodies]

Seems a very reasonable analysis and expectation:

• Slightly above a GTX 1080
• Decently above it in optimised DX12/Vulkan games
• More power use, and hotter
• Likely nip at the heels of the 1080 Ti in a year, and in highly optimised low-level games

So yeah, if that level of performance and potential come in at £450, AMD probably have a winner on their hands.

 

[BriT]

 

[AllBodies]

There goes the reasonably priced idea gone, What price AMD sets wont really matter if they are gobbled up by miners market price will soar

That's crazy that means RX Vega is going to be even more so by a significant amount be more profitable than anything nvidia has.

So expect higher RX Vega prices and hard to find stock i guess.

Also in that thread they said ROI would be ~250 days on $999 Vega FE.

So ~$4 a day profit per card, with more optimisations possible.

If RX Vega is around or under $500 then yeah we'll probably have to compete with the miners...

 

[benjii]

Seems a very reasonable analysis and expectation:

• Slightly above a GTX 1080
• Decently above it in optimised DX12/Vulkan games
• More power use, and hotter
• Likely nip at the heels of the 1080 Ti in a year, and in highly optimised low-level games

So yeah, if that level of performance and potential come in at £450, AMD probably have a winner on their hands.

That's been my expectation of RX Vega since day one. I have a freesync monitor so I'm somewhat tied to AMD at the moment. I would, however, be happy with the aforementioned performance at the right price.

 

[Erik13]

With this minning craze and expensive production of Vega i highly doubt that Amd will make too many Rx Vegas. They will prolly prioritize Fe version at least that would be my decision if i were head of Amd right now

 

[Brazo]

Seems a very reasonable analysis and expectation:

• Slightly above a GTX 1080
• Decently above it in optimised DX12/Vulkan games
• More power use, and hotter
• Likely nip at the heels of the 1080 Ti in a year, and in highly optimised low-level games

So yeah, if that level of performance and potential come in at £450, AMD probably have a winner on their hands.

That is based one one game alone though. It is odd that Doom keeps being used and seems to be the only game that appears favourable (to a point) in benchmarks.

Another viewpoint could be that is slightly worse performance than an overclocked 1080, over a year late to the market, takes more power/heat to be not as good as the competition.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah why use DOOM all the bloody time, why not use one of the many other Vulkan games out there ?

 

[TNA]

I'm surprised you're in this thread then.

It's amazing how many posts this and the last thread has generated when you consider how little solid information there has been.

I come for the entertainment

 

[Brazo]

Yeah why use DOOM all the bloody time, why not use one of the many other Vulkan games out there ?

Because even a non scientific calculator will run doom well, that's why

As for all the other Vulkan games... well give it a few years and I'm sure some will at least be announced.

 

[DazQ87]

So am I right in thinking this is about what we know so far: Should be somewhere between a 1080 and a 1080ti once drivers are sorted, but nobody will be able to buy one because all the miners will have them on top of the fact that HBM2 will make stock low and the price expensive to start with?

All this just makes the 1080ti more appealing, and this is comming from somebody with a freesync monitor who wants a fury-x replacement...

 

[humbug]

So am I right in thinking this is about what we know so far: Should be somewhere between a 1080 and a 1080ti once drivers are sorted, but nobody will be able to buy one because all the miners will have them on top of the fact that HBM2 will make stock low and the price expensive to start with?

All this just makes the 1080ti more appealing, and this is comming from somebody with a freesync monitor who wants a fury-x replacement...

There is a lot of hyperbolic speculation in this thread based on click-bait, the usual OcUK GPU forum shenanigans.

The sensible thing to do would be to wait for real RX Vega reviews.

 

[Brazo]

There is a lot of hyperbolic speculation in this thread based on click-bait.

The sensible thing to do would be to wait for real RX Vega reviews.

It would indeed. Although not quite as much fun