Playing Witcher 3 on my Fury Nitro (non X) with Tri-X cooler makes that card really loud and hot. The room warms up in no time. For Vega I think the only way is AiO or custom loop.
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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **
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Oh right. and after rereading, i just realised my post went of on a random tangent and technically wasn't an answer to his question
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What were the card temps, room.size and case temps etc?
Sounds like your case is the issue there. Can't say my Fury Pro ever spins up over 40% on the fans and occasionally hits 75C ish. It idles at 50C with no fan spinning.
Ahh ok sorry I misinterpreted your post
Weren't they actually supposed to be £509, but stock was so short worldwide, Ocuk ( and other retailers ) absolutely took the mick and charged £649.
Think I paid 420 ish for my Fury pro once the silly first month past.
** Edit i actually paid £449
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Yea it probably should have been around that as the RRP at the time was $649 which was the same as the gtx980ti release price. The £ to $ was around £1 for $1.50
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Same here, mine just goes to the default 78C, and idles around 39.
Yes it probably would have, but they probably wanted to keep it in a SFF format (even though a rad takes up space), they probably thought that it would catch on more, they were trying to sell high perf for matx builds and stuff like that, and at the time of it's release it was a pretty powerful (most powerful?) SFF gpu, the nano and the FX, the FX for the bigger itx cases
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Bulldozer was worse than Phenom, clock for clock. It's not like AMD could not possibly have regressed in gaming performance.
Like Rroff says, if they keep changing things up and hoping that developers will jump on board the "AMD Way" of doing things, and it doesn't happen, you're just left with a very inefficient, poorly-utilised architecture. If they just concentrated on releasing cards that work for the current paradigms, instead of re-inventing the wheel every time, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
Same thing happened with Sony and Cell. Trying to force developers to switch to something all-new just doesn't seem to work out
Are you kidding me? Amd has pushed forward gaming for many years its what they do. Not Amds fault nvidia has got grips over the gaming ecosystem nowa days. Just look back at past iterations of direct x. Its why amd wanted in on consoles. To try and help leverage them in the gaming industry and try to get thier hardware optimised for. Its not like AMD are making massive profits off the consoles lol they do it purley to get thier hardware out there and get it optimised for. Its same with ryzen, its actually good but because intel dominate the cpu ecosystem most software abd operating systems are optimised for intel. But slowly ryzen is getting optimisations and improving noticeably over what it was on release.
Look at intel panicking and now mixing up thier lineups because they made 8 core 16 threads affordable. Even 6 core 12 thread. Amd pushing things forward not sitting stale on the same old crap.
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I'm sure at the start they do go about trying to nail the performance, and make total fools of themselves by marketing BS like "poor Volta". Then they realise how poor their design is and how crap it performs compared to the competition and early expectations, so they then beat on and try and sell the pointless gimmick crap on the card.
The problem here is these gpu's as we know are designed a few years in the past, so its usually guesswork as to how things will pan out, simulations can only tell them so much. I just wonder if some of these gpu's are actually what they were intended to be or are they stopgaps because things didn't work out.
We all know how Polaris went, hardocp basically called out amd saying that the were full of it and Polaris was a gpu that never met clock expectations so they went with this whole "disruptive product" bs to sell the card. 2900xt was the same thing, it was meant to be a mega gpu, yet when it came out they had a whole "value for money" advertising campaign around it, and performance wise it barely beat out a 8800gts never mind the gtx, and it gobbled a lot more power.
Now we have Vega which a lot of people are seeing as a reworked Fiji, initially everyone thought Vega was supposed to be something totally new but that appears not to be the case. So have they shuffled around some road-map names and Vega was supposed to be something else? Is Vega really just a reworked Fiji core and if that's the case wtf took it so long to come to market, so far it appears to be a clock speed bumped Fiji with 4 more gigs of ram and not much else. The fact its been reported to be using modified Fiji drivers sort of reinforces that.
Still interested to see reviews when it finally hits, but personally to me it feels like something went wrong somewhere and this is more of a stopgap product given performance numbers for the FE versions so far.
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Yep I kidding of course, just sometimes they seem so out of touch. They get it completely wrong time after time again.
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We know it's not just a reworked Fury. In the pro benchmarks it's around twice as fast and in another I seen it was 4 times faster. We also know it's not a reworked Fury as the die size is far to big to be just that. It supports more dx12 features as well. It has plenty of new features as well. With all that said at least in the FE cards case the performance in games is not showing it where it should be and clock for clock it's the same as a Fury X.
This is a common misconception
Water cooling is a better, quieter way to cool your system, but, your room will still heat up the same amount, it might take a little but longer, but the end result will be the same, a warm room.Which 2 years on is pathetic IF that's how the rx card turns out. Maybe amd will surprise us with some black magic, but if this is representative of rx for the most part it might as well be a Fiji refresh for all its worth.
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Yep it will be hard to fathom. I heard they put a call out to Merlin last week so all will be fine on launch.
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