Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[shankly1985]

Let not forget here, some games definitely prefer nvidia over AMD and that won't change in some titles.
For example GTA5 massively favours nvidia hardware.

This I come to expect. You win some you loose some and in others you neck and neck

 

[RavenXXX2]

AMD Radeon RX Vega Compared Against a GeForce GTX 1080 in Budapest – Almost Similar Performance in Battlefield 1, Launches in 2 Weeks

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-vega-gtx-1080-battlefield-1-comparison/

 

[V F]

It's hardly completely useless right now though. For me, I think buying anything new is just asking for trouble these days.
Computer news sites almost seem as bad as mainstream media for trying to shoehorn drama into things.

I really despise journalism.

 

[MyBrainz]

As driver improvements go, i looked at my 3D Mark scores from about a year ago on the same system, the only change between these scores are the GPU drivers..

16.9.x Drivers (Sept 2016) - Graphics Score 12 836 (1411 Core / 1750 Memory)

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9920265

17.7.1 Drivers July 2017) - Graphics Score 14 322 (1400 Core / 1750 Memory)

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13135642

Thought i'd post this for anyone interested in AMD's driver improvements

Btw i dont think any Win 10 builds have given any perf increases

 

[DazQ87]

Fantastic, 2 years after getting a fury-x and they can't even manage a 50% improvement. I don't understand how the die can be so much bigger but it only offers the same performance per MHz as the fury-x whilst drawing more power and producing more heat.

 

[JediFragger]

AMD must be thinking they're competing against the 900-series still

 

[KillBoY_UK]

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-vega-gtx-1080-battlefield-1-comparison/

The booth lady's look very bored

 

[Shaky Fossil]

Long time forum reader, thought I'd finally sign up and post an observation. In the Assassins Creed Unity video, the CPU utilisation appears consistently lower on the Vega FE and the 7700K processor clock speeds are bouncing around. In the final ballroom scene the processor speeds appear to be all over the place, dipping down to 2.1Ghz(!). The Nvidia powered videos don't seem to suffer the processor speeds jumping around. Just wondered if this was potentially down to bugs within AMD drivers causing conflicts or whether there is more to it?

 

[spoffle]

The booth lady's look very bored

The booth lady's what?

 

[Erik13]

Btw which vega was that ? It could be smaller one for all we know

 

[KillBoY_UK]

The booth lady's what?

look at the first of the event photos in the link

 

[ubersonic]

Not at all, I'd say that's a great psu at a great price.

I said the same before mine exploded £100+ of hard drives XD

 

[MyBrainz]

Btw which vega was that ? It could be smaller one for all we know

Good call

 

[ubersonic]

With an RX Vega, at say £400, would =

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if RX Vega was £400 I would take it over a £450 1080 with a terrible cooler (because it it was £400 it would obviously match/beat a bad 1080).

 

[ubersonic]

Consider the evidence and think about it logically

I did, hence my point that 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, AMD would be better served by cancelling it and swallowing the R&D loss, it would lose them less money. Hence we can safely assume it will at least match a 1080 (worst case scenario).

 

[Gerard]

If the 1080 performance is true then that's pretty sad, whats the tagline for this card gonna be? "AMD, bringing you last years performance this year"? Just seems like things haven't moved on much from fury x, and at best Vega is a somewhat updated fury x. There's meant to be what, 3 iterations of this? Hopefully what we're seeing is mid-range and the high end version has more to offer. Though it wouldn't really surprise me if the only real difference between the 3 was low and mid = air cooled, high = water cooled and clock speeds making the difference.

 

[FoxEye]

Btw which vega was that ? It could be smaller one for all we know

Actually it was just a 470 with AMD's new Magic Driver (tm).

 

[Erik13]

If 1080 performance turns out to be true whole engineering team along with head of Rtg must be fired. This is failure on grand scale

 

[Rroff]

If the 1080 performance is true then that's pretty sad, whats the tagline for this card gonna be? "AMD, bringing you last years performance this year"? Just seems like things haven't moved on much from fury x, and at best Vega is a somewhat updated fury x. There's meant to be what, 3 iterations of this? Hopefully what we're seeing is mid-range and the high end version has more to offer. Though it wouldn't really surprise me if the only real difference between the 3 was low and mid = air cooled, high = water cooled and clock speeds making the difference.

Realistically 2 years old performance as if the position generally banded about is true it would barely beat an overclocked 980ti/TX (Maxwell).

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Not sure why they seem to benchmark just 4k sometimes, and not even bother showing 1440p results.

Personally I'll be sticking with 1440p high refresh, go 4k in maybe a couple of years. By then single card performance should be much better at that res, plus more mature high refresh screens.