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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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I'm jumping ship to AMD because of Nvidias tactics of crippling older cards, forcing you to upgrade. That is just a crappy marketing stunt. At least AMD have better driver support, given the size of the resources available to them.
 
subbytna said:
I'm jumping ship to AMD because of Nvidias tactics of crippling older cards, forcing you to upgrade. That is just a crappy marketing stunt. At least AMD have better driver support, given the size of the resources available to them.
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Can you provide any references to this - the only links i can find showing performance across a number of years show a small and steady increase on nvidia

Its true that 4gb cards have aged slightly better than 3gb cards, but I would be willing to bet that most x80/ti owners also tend to upgrade every generation, and I wouldnt neccesarily entirely blame nvidia when game developers start pitching their new shiny games at new shiny hardware.
 
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JediFragger said:
I think 99% of us support whoever has the best product out at the time inc me. Problem is AMD haven't been competing for a long time, and we're still holding out hope that Vega will compete in some form to give us options!!
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Yep, hence why I went green a couple of years ago

triss said:
And if Vega is 1080 or more price and performance how has you holding out helped?
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Then you are buggered, but if you have a freesync monitor at least you have an option to make use of it.

I have a 980ti and a gsync monitor so I'm not holding out for Vega. If it were 1080ti performance at a great price I'd switch back, but that's looking unlikely
 
Panos said:
And I would like to add, the ability to use pass-through the AMD GPU on Linux to a windows VM machine for gaming without perf loss and while Linux is the host.
Something Nvidia doesn't support at all, and given the attitude, never will.
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Oooo, that sounds like an essential feature for mainstream gamers.
 
bru said:
Ok so let's day that RX Vega arrives in a week and performs significantly better than the FE variant, what is that saying to all the people that paid a lot of money for said FE variant?

At the end of the day, the Frontier Edition is a complete product in its own right and they didn't launch it as a vague early release demo of their upcoming gaming card.
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I presume you are talking about gaming. Vega FE isn't aimed at gamers. It was even said at the launch, if you are a gamer wait for RX Vega. They have always claimed RX Vega would be better for gaming.

So not sure what your post is implying?
 
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bru said:
Ok so let's day that RX Vega arrives in a week and performs significantly better than the FE variant, what is that saying to all the people that paid a lot of money for said FE variant?

At the end of the day, the Frontier Edition is a complete product in its own right and they didn't launch it as a vague early release demo of their upcoming gaming card.
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Vega FE will likely gain any of the performance improvements the RX drivers have in them. It is more than likely that the gaming side of things were just not ready at all for FE launch.
 
I'm still shocked there is nothing coming out of this event that is happening right now in Oregon. It's meant to be 21-23rd is it not, absolute blanket silence. AMD are completely out of touch when it comes to GPU releases, I just never understand their attitude to this sort of thing. Winds me up no end, I think they are partly the reason for my annoyance and disappointment with PC gaming right now.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
I'm still shocked there is nothing coming out of this event that is happening right now in Oregon. It's meant to be 21-23rd is it not, absolute blanket silence. AMD are completely out of touch when it comes to GPU releases, I just never understand their attitude to this sort of thing. Winds me up no end, I think they are partly the reason for my annoyance and disappointment with PC gaming right now.
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I just don't get why there doing these roadshow and saying nothing about performance, it feels like it's not performing well but if they don't mention it then hopefully no one will notice
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
I'm still shocked there is nothing coming out of this event that is happening right now in Oregon. It's meant to be 21-23rd is it not, absolute blanket silence. AMD are completely out of touch when it comes to GPU releases, I just never understand their attitude to this sort of thing. Winds me up no end, I think they are partly the reason for my annoyance and disappointment with PC gaming right now.
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They should just stick to the 1080p and lower crowd imo, it's where the majority of the sales are anyhow. It's obvious that they have no clue when it comes to taking it seriously.
 
If I were to just get a 1080 or 1080ti, and run it with Vsync off but cap my frames at 143, I wouldn't see any tearing would I? Might have to just chin off Freesync if this Vega turns out exactly how I'm expecting.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
If I were to just get a 1080 or 1080ti, and run it with Vsync off but cap my frames at 143, I wouldn't see any tearing would I? Might have to just chin off Freesync if this Vega turns out exactly how I'm expecting.
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You still get tearing because the GPU and Refresh will still delivery frame out of sync. It will defo be hard to notice though depending on game..
The only way tearing is completely gone is by Frame + Refresh is in sync with each other.
 
Capping framerate close to the refresh rate can actually increase perceived tearing for some reason - though at 140+ FPS its much less noticeable than around 60. With nVidia though the FastSync option is definitely worth testing out if you don't have G-Sync.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
If I were to just get a 1080 or 1080ti, and run it with Vsync off but cap my frames at 143, I wouldn't see any tearing would I? Might have to just chin off Freesync if this Vega turns out exactly how I'm expecting.
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Worth waiting 2/3 more weeks for actual reviews imo, see what's what finally. AMD are proper ****s though for dragging this crap out this long with close to zero info regarding the gaming performance.
 
DazQ87 said:
It's attitudes like this which are going to result in the eventual loss of AMD, lots of people only seem to want AMD to even exist to keep the price of nvida cards in check without actually buying an AMD card themselves. Then we can all enjoy having an Nvidia only market where the progress stalls to intel-like levels where they can charge what they like for it as well...
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if only they gave me a reason to upgrade from my 980ti/s
 
Something just doesn't add up with all this release. A part of me is expecting something big from this end of the month event! Maybe its just wishful thinking from me right now, but I dont see how a two year refresh can bring out a GPU that is only just faster than the FuryX.

28nm to 14nm
AMD always bang on about performance vs watt yet FE Vega tells a massive different story. Nothing seem to add up! So for now I standing by my own judgement and I expecting something big :D AMD is hiding something. A failure or Progress ?? We will all soon find out
 
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