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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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chroniclard said:
Its not too bad really. Makes me slightly optimistic for the water cooled gaming version.

Problem I see is the pricing, expect its going to be high.
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The bottom line is AMD will have to price the card to sell, it's no good offering 1080 performance at $500 as anyone who wants the level of performance will already own a 1080 so if they plan on a RRP of $500+ it will have to have the performance to match it's price tag regardless of how much an RX Vega costs to make.
 
Pricing is absolute key, it's going to make or break the card more than the performance for sure. I could brush over the fact that it's a year late for similar performance to that of a 1080 non ti, if the price comes in under a 1080, so we are talking £450 absolute maximum. With the mining craze hitting now, I just can't see that happening, it looks incredibly unlikely. Anything more than £450ish and i'll start questioning why I'd want to drop £500-£600 on a card that has the performance of Nvidia more than a year late, why it requires twice the power than that of the competition card and also with a very short lifespan until the next GPU's coming in under 6 months maybe, is it worth it.

I expect this to be make or brake in my PC gaming future. If this is another over hyped, overpriced and under performing AMD flop again and like FuryX, I'll be calling my time on AMD, Freesync and more than likely PC gaming in general for a while. I'm very impressed with PS4 pro on a 55" 4k HDR Samsung TV, XB1X is out as well later in the year, plus PC games are shocking these days as well. Add to that the mining craze that's taking already ridiculous GPU prices to an entire different level of crazy, It's all just leaving a bit of a sour taste in my mouth right now.
 
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What concerns me is the power usage of Vega FE to what performance i am seeing .. and even if AMD price the RX Vega just under the 1080 ..all Nvidia will do is price cut them ...
 
Davedree said:
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Only Amd have stagnated, Nvidia have just taken the **** with their pricing and ecosystem.
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Possibly, sure NVIDIA have the 1070 and 1080 1080ti at the top end of the spectrum, but the 1060 still
TonyTurbo78 said:
Pricing is absolute key, it's going to make or break the card more than the performance for sure. I could brush over the fact that it's a year late for similar performance to that of a 1080 non ti, if the price comes in under a 1080, so we are talking £450 absolute maximum. With the mining craze hitting now, I just can't see that happening, it looks incredibly unlikely. Anything more than £450ish and i'll start questioning why I'd want to drop £500-£600 on a card that has the performance of Nvidia more than a year late, why it requires twice the power than that of the competition card and also with a very short lifespan until the next GPU's coming in under 6 months maybe, is it worth it.

I expect this to be make or brake in my PC gaming future. If this is another over hyped, overpriced and under performing AMD flop again and like FuryX, I'll be calling my time on AMD, Freesync and more than likely PC gaming in general for a while. I'm very impressed with PS4 pro on a 55" 4k HDR Samsung TV, XB1X is out as well later in the year, plus PC games are shocking these days as well. Add to that the mining craze that's taking already ridiculous GPU prices to an entire different level of crazy, It's all just leaving a bit of a sour taste in my mouth right now.
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this is exactly how I see it, PC gaming at the moment feels stagnant and overly expensive, sure AMD finally shook up the CPU market with Ryzen, but now NVIDIA has the GPU high end so comfortably sown up they can charge what they want, AMD about to bring a card to market that's almost a year behind the NVIDIA offerings and the likely the similar price and performance, all NVIDIA need to to, is officially announce Volta...
The Xbox 1X looks is looking more appealing, as does consoles in general
 
Chrisc said:
Genuine question. . .Apart from the obvious 'decrease in performance' why would having the cut down version be bad? Im not saying that you said "it would be bad" btw. . Im just wondering
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Last time I ended up with the cut down Fury pro because AMD messed up and the water pumps on the Fury X, They were whistlers, 3 to 4 weeks later I gave up waiting for fixed ones and bought a cut down Fiji card. I want the full chip this time.
 
nashathedog said:
If the rumour of the reference model being $599 is true it'll need to be extra special to sell for that.



Rumour at 1:39
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$599 is far too expensive if that's accurate.

No doubt there'll be some attractive 1080 and 1080Ti deals around the time of the RX launch which could make it look very over-priced.
 
A power hungry 1080 for $599 14 months late to the party.

Ok AMD.... :confused:

They can't charge that for it surely? If they do, it is going to have to be 1080TI competition.
 
five8five said:
$599 is far too expensive if that's accurate.

No doubt there'll be some attractive 1080 and 1080Ti deals around the time of the RX launch which could make it look very over-priced.
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You mean far too expensive based on what we currently know to be the Vega FE's capabilities right? Clearly we don't know for sure how the RX Vega will perform.
 
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