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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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ubersonic said:
There's an 850w Kolink 80 Plus one for £49.99

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kolink-core-series-850w-80-plus-certified-power-supply-ca-02u-kk.html

If you like electrical fires... :p
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Not at all, I'd say that's a great psu at a great price.
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Mtom said:
Don't start a marketing agency if it's logical to you to tell people that your top product is not up to the task before the start...just after you masked it off on all computers to hide which one is which.

The guys is just making up ******** on reddit, and the naysayers are riding on it...that happened.
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If the product is no better than a 1080, as confirmed by multiple independent sources testing the released Vega products, then there is no point in trying to hide that fact.

Everything else was masked put so that it was impossible to tell exact performance figures, that is obvious
 
D.P. said:
If the product is no better than a 1080, as confirmed by multiple independent sources testing the released Vega products, then there is no point in trying to hide that fact.

Everything else was masked put so that it was impossible to tell exact performance figures, that is obvious
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The product we are talking about is the RX Vega. The released Vega product we know performance figures about if the FE, and which is basically still running on the modified Fiji drivers as it seems, has basically all of it's features disabled, has the voltage and frequency scaling disabled.
So back to square one, drawing conclusions from the current FE performance is pointless. Drawing conclusions from the AMD showoff without knowing anything about the computer components and FPS numbers is just as pointless.
 
So if it's over 400w where's all that power going if the performance is not there, read the rx should use less power than the fe due to having only 8gb of HBM2, what that means in real life dunno
 
old gamer said:
So if it's over 400w where's all that power going if the performance is not there, read the rx should use less power than the fe due to having only 8gb of HBM2, what that means in real life dunno
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If you look at what an RX580 does and how terribly the power efficiency scales with clock speed and consder Vega is like twice a Polaris 20 almost, then its not hard to see why Vega sucks a load of power if it is trying to sustain 1600+ MHz.


https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/RX_580_Nitro_Plus/28.html
 
Mtom said:
The product we are talking about is the RX Vega. The released Vega product we know performance figures about if the FE, and which is basically still running on the modified Fiji drivers as it seems, has basically all of it's features disabled, has the voltage and frequency scaling disabled.
So back to square one, drawing conclusions from the current FE performance is pointless. Drawing conclusions from the AMD showoff without knowing anything about the computer components and FPS numbers is just as pointless.
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Same old rubbish about drivers, even although that has been proven wrong by AMD themselves.
 
D.P. said:
Same old rubbish about drivers, even although that has been proven wrong by AMD themselves.
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It's called desperation :p

Good to know who the AMD faithful are tho. I prefer my information from impartial sources.

Anyway, the whole point of masking the PCs was obviously so you wouldn't know which is which. Not that you wouldn't know it was Vega against a 1080. The idea that you'd have an unknown AMD card vs an unknown nVidia card, and set up a demonstration which told users literally nothing... what the heck would be the point?
 
ubersonic said:
There is no chance in hell that Vega isn't going to beat the 1080, think about it logically, the Fury Nano isn't that far behind the 1070 and so if Vega can't beat the 1080 with two years of progress over the Nano and >double the TDP then it has no point even existing.
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Consider the evidence and think about it logically - the only evidence we have at the moment is:

1) Vega is no better than Fury at the same clock speed.
2) Vega can clock higher than Fury.
3) Vega has huge power consumption and runs very hot as a result.

Is it really logical to assume that a couple of months of driver development will bring big enough increases to performance and big enough decreases to power consumption to make Vega better than a 1080?
 
It's going to rival the 1080 and the rumour is that it will be priced the same. AMD will argue the cheaper Freesync monitor route will elevate it above the 1080.
 
Erik13 said:
Do we have leaks from Budapest event ?
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Actually not, and on the video leaked, the 2 hostess in the middle were drawing all gases. Who cares about the performance.

But we have some images from the Nvidia Geforce Indonesia day, and apparently NV PR team is out trying to firefight this picture

http://imgur.com/r/Amd/jdMNSfx

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Funny, even Nvidia cannot afford their own products :p


Anyhow back to subject. Imho don't see much perf over GTX1080. If AMD had more perf than it or close to GTX1080Ti, they could have used a GTX1080Ti on the event, not a GTX1080.

However for everyone having a Fury/FuryX and Freesync monitor is still an upgrade :)

But we know nothing, up to know we can only speculate, and better hold small basket.
What I am more interesting, is Threadripper & the rumoured share of HBM cache on the Vega GPUs with it, alongside Infinity Fabric connected GPUs instead of Crossfire.
 
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