Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[N19h7m4r3]

To be honest if it crashed on pro applications, I wouldn't be running it undervolted gaming either as at some point, one scene in a game or one game will trip it up.

That's 1.075v that won't do pro work and happily game, but 1.1V will do it all with some power savings compared to the stock 1.2V

Will be interesting to see some more in depth reviews and analysis of undervolting for Vega.

 

[Mauller]

To be honest if it crashed on pro applications, I wouldn't be running it undervolted gaming either as at some point, one scene in a game or one game will trip it up.

There seems to be a level of stubborn ignorance with the Vega cards.

It seems that amd were pretty determined that they were going to have hbm and have probably spent a lot of time and resources getting it to work.

They should have probably used gddr5 or 5x and concentrated on the GPU core. Basically a larger 580 with faster memory.

I really want to replace my now single 290x but it still seems like there isn't going to be a sensible amd upgrade so I can keep using freesync on my monitor. Only time will tell.

If there are features disabled, it will likely run more stable and with lower power usage on RX Vega drivers.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

So much for the bannana yellow, it looks fantastic.

Shiny!!

 

[LoadsaMoney]

You could just use those Frontiers solely for gaming in theory, as they are just 16GB RXs at the end of the day, and Raj did say, you could use the RX drivers on them, so if those RX drivers enable the tiled raster. and what not on the RX, then they should do the same on the Frontiers.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The person on Reddit who got the water cooled RX Vega card,got it up to 1.7GHZ!!

 

[benjii]

The person on Reddit who got the water cooled RX Vega card,got it up to 1.7GHZ!!

Stable or just for validation?

 

[JediFragger]

The person on Reddit who got the water cooled RX Vega card,got it up to 1.7GHZ!!

7% overclock!!!!???!!!!! Hold me back baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[shankly1985]

The person on Reddit who got the water cooled RX Vega card,got it up to 1.7GHZ!!

RX? says Vega FE in the name

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Some more pictures:

http://imgur.com/a/htTHj

Stable or just for validation?

Seems rock solid according to him:

https://www.reddit.com/user/ba1b0a

It seems to be at 1.7GHZ at the core and 1100MHZ for the RAM.

RX? says Vega FE in the name

Oops,I meant Vega FE!!

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

7% overclock!!!!???!!!!! Hold me back baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1700MHZ is still much higher than any RX580 could achieve:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_rx_580/

The best RX580 cards can just manage above 1.5GHZ it seems,and this with hardly any tweaks it is hitting 1.7GHZ on the same process node.

Considering this GPU is over double the size too,it does seem there are changes to the shaders to enable such high clockspeeds.

Edit!!

The RX480 does seem to clock lower:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_rx_480/

So around 100MHZ difference due to the more mature process node it seems.

 

[JediFragger]

1700MHZ is still much higher than any RX580 could achieve:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_rx_580/

The best RX580 cards can just manage above 1.5GHZ it seems,and this with hardly any tweaks it is hitting 1.7GHZ on the same process node.

Considering this GPU is over double the size too,it does seem there are changes to the shaders to enable such high clockspeeds.

Yes but this is a different architecture with a much longer pipeline so it can hit the Mhz numbers...

(hence worse IPC than FuryX at the same clocks. Netburst anyone?)

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Yes but this is a different architecture with a much longer pipeline so it can hit the Mhz numbers...

(hence worse IPC than FuryX at the same clocks. Netburst anyone?)

Unless we have final gaming drivers we don't know and AMD has not stated IPC would be less AFAIK and that was this year:

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/11002/Vega Final Presentation-29.png

We will need to wait and see,but since AMD is using this Raven Ridge which will be one of the major uses of this uarch and that will be released for thermally limited areas like laptops,so none of this is adding up.

But this is the whole point - AMD has a tendency to rush stuff out. Even half the negativity with Ryzen is because they rushed it out one month before even the motherboards were stable and ACTUALLY AVAILABLE.

 

[nashathedog]

So much for the bannana yellow, it looks fantastic.

Thank God.

 

[mmj_uk]

7% overclock!!!!???!!!!! Hold me back baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overclockers dream!

 

[benjii]

Overclockers dream!

I knew that was coming.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

 

[nashathedog]

I really want to replace my now single 290x but it still seems like there isn't going to be a sensible amd upgrade so I can keep using freesync on my monitor. Only time will tell.

Vega will most definitely offer an upgrade path for a 290X owner.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Do some of you actually overclock cards - I think I ended up getting like a 10% increase in framerates with my GTX1080 FE,and it needed me to ramp up the fan,so in the end I just left it on its default profile!!

Edit!!

Compare that to my HD5850,HD4830(IIRC) and my mates GTX460,you could often see 20% to 30% improvements through overclocking.

 

[TNA]

Overclockers dream!

 

[Rroff]

Do some of you actually overclock cards - I think I ended up getting like a 10% increase in framerates with my GTX1080 FE,and it needed me to ramp up the fan,so in the end I just left it on its default profile!!

Edit!!

Compare that to my HD5850,HD4830(IIRC) and my mates GTX460,you could often see 20% to 30% improvements through overclocking.

Pascal's boost already gets you pretty close to the max the individual card can do (plus Pascal is already getting pretty aggressive clocks out of the 16nm process). Some of my old cards 30% overclock was easy, 40% possible with the balls to turn up the voltage beyond normal levels.