Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[Jono8]

Hehe, that is great.

 

[Defiant306]

 

[five8five]

 

[Rroff]

Hah best thing I've seen in awhile.

 

[SS-89]

Hahaha quality

 

[Zeebedy]

EPIC.

 

[nashathedog]

Another week passes by
Can somebody put a date on that please?

It should happen that at SIGGRAPH all AMD does is provide some vague... available between Q3-Q4.. kind of joke with a t-shirt ofc

No one know's for sure but the hope is there will be reference cards at the beginning of August, That's watercooled and air blower types.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

 

[Angilion]

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.

I think that's the key point - overclocking graphics cards is usually far less useful than it used to be and it's never usually been as useful as overclocking CPUs unless you also went to water cooling the card. It's uncommon to change one air cooler on a graphics card to another air cooler, whereas it's common to change a stock air cooler on a CPU for another (much better) one. The variety of manufacturers has also resulted in factory overclocks being normal with graphics cards, which is essentially the manufacturer already fitting a better cooler and overclocking before it's sold. If you want an overclocked graphics card, it's usually better to just buy one rather than buying a stock speed card, buying a better cooler, changing the cooler and then overclocking.

Then there's the power limit issue. I spent some time changing settings with my 7950. Clocks, voltages, fan profiles, the works. After a lot of changes and benching, I found that I got the best increase in performance by undervolting at stock speeds and increasing the power limit because it was still power throttled even when undervolted as far as it would go at stock speeds.

Then there's the auto-overclocking that's normal in modern cards. If the card is going to "boost", i.e. overclock itself, there's going to be even less scope for manually overclocking it.

It looks to me like the it's now usually the case that usually the only reason for manually overclocking a modern graphics card is to see how far you can go. Overclocking as a game in itself, with benchmarks to show your score.

 

[malachi]

Awesome lol

 

[N19h7m4r3]

Epic!

EPIC.

Epyc*

 

[TNA]

Epyc*

 

[Gregster]

1700Mhz for the FE Impressive and hopefully the RX can do far more. 2000Mhz possible perhaps?

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I think that's the key point - overclocking graphics cards is usually far less useful than it used to be and it's never usually been as useful as overclocking CPUs unless you also went to water cooling the card. It's uncommon to change one air cooler on a graphics card to another air cooler, whereas it's common to change a stock air cooler on a CPU for another (much better) one. The variety of manufacturers has also resulted in factory overclocks being normal with graphics cards, which is essentially the manufacturer already fitting a better cooler and overclocking before it's sold. If you want an overclocked graphics card, it's usually better to just buy one rather than buying a stock speed card, buying a better cooler, changing the cooler and then overclocking.

Then there's the power limit issue. I spent some time changing settings with my 7950. Clocks, voltages, fan profiles, the works. After a lot of changes and benching, I found that I got the best increase in performance by undervolting at stock speeds and increasing the power limit because it was still power throttled even when undervolted as far as it would go at stock speeds.

Then there's the auto-overclocking that's normal in modern cards. If the card is going to "boost", i.e. overclock itself, there's going to be even less scope for manually overclocking it.

It looks to me like the it's now usually the case that usually the only reason for manually overclocking a modern graphics card is to see how far you can go. Overclocking as a game in itself, with benchmarks to show your score.

Yeah,I have seen more people overclock their CPUs nowadays than their graphics cards but even now with Intel pre-overclocking their CPUs to a degree,you might as well keep your new Core i7 K series CPU at stock!

 

[TNA]

1700Mhz for the FE Impressive and hopefully the RX can do far more. 2000Mhz possible perhaps?

Yes, but at what cost? 400+ watts

 

[Mauller]

1700Mhz for the FE Impressive and hopefully the RX can do far more. 2000Mhz possible perhaps?

i reckon a good 1800-1900 should be possible with new features bringing down the power requirements considering it can hold 1.7GHz at 1.1V while it takes Polaris 1.25-1.3 to hold 1.5.

 

[old gamer]

Yes, but at what cost? 400+ watts

Not only that but a lot of heat to deal with Im thinking

 

[Toss3]

The same reason as a lot of other people do on this forum, to share the results.

Was just joking.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Come on AMD get these out,the GPU space this year has been a total bore,when combined with mining craze,DDR4 and NAND price increases,has meant if it wasn't for Ryzen, 2017 would have been one of the most meh years for PC hardware for yonks!!

 

[bells]

Come on AMD get these out,the GPU space this year has been a total bore,when combined with mining craze,DDR4 and NAND price increases,has meant if it wasn't for Ryzen, 2017 would have been one of the most meh years for PC hardware for yonks!!

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