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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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nashathedog said:
Bloomin hope not. If it is I'll just grab the regular water cooled model;
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I'd put money on it, naming it "limited edition" gives them room to slap a stupid price onto it. Plus the holo cube and the funny box design that seems to flop open are all part of the package.

Come to think of it, whens the last time a video card launched and directly from amd or nvidia there was a limited edition variant? Seen other vendors do it with versions of a card like power devil or the asus mars, seems odd for the chip manufacturer to do it.
 
FoxEye said:
I think what nV proved with the 10xx series cards is that people are prepared to pay more these days, across the whole spectrum. You have mid-range card buyers who have been forced up from £150 to £250. They are paying up.

You have upper-mid range buyers who have been forced up from £250 to £400. They are paying up.

And you have top-end buyers who have been forced up from £400-500 to £700 all the way to £1000. They are paying up.

We all moan (or most of us), but then we all buy (or most of us). So we only have ourselves to blame.
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Even if I was to boycott them, only I would lose out. Somebody else would replace me. I'd be unable to enjoy my games and likely become so bitter.
 
FoxEye said:
I think what nV proved with the 10xx series cards is that people are prepared to pay more these days, across the whole spectrum. You have mid-range card buyers who have been forced up from £150 to £250. They are paying up.

You have upper-mid range buyers who have been forced up from £250 to £400. They are paying up.

And you have top-end buyers who have been forced up from £400-500 to £700 all the way to £1000. They are paying up.

We all moan (or most of us), but then we all buy (or most of us). So we only have ourselves to blame.
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Speak for yourself. I've never spent over £200 on a GPU.
 
DragonQ said:
Speak for yourself. I've never spent over £200 on a GPU.
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I've never spent more than £250 on a GPU, and that was on a GTX 6800 years and years ago, which was close to the top-end card of its day (only the 6800 Ultra above it, iirc).

More recent purchases were £150 (460), £100 (280X 2nd hand), £199 (480 4GB). £150 is my price bracket.

But like VF and others have said (we've all said it)... if I boycott the new prices - hell, even if 25% boycott the new prices - that still leaves plenty of others who will buy. And obviously nV and AMD have calculated that it's more money for them, even if there genuinely are a few less sales.

If we boycott (I still am, I want a 1070 but not for £400), we'll just have to go without. That's why I'm picking up a PS4 Pro on Black Friday, and probably kissing PC gaming goodbye.

At this stage, boycotting just means giving up PC gaming, I'm afraid. The new prices are here to stay. Volta may even be more expensive again, who would bet against it?
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
We don't know that at all really. Do you honestly think and extra 77Mhz is going to push it that far?

No one knows until 3rd party reviews are out to test it all.

Looking at performance to clocks based on the FE, these don't look that promising.
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Yeah, yeah, but they all would have done the same to get an exclusive.
 
Toss3 said:
That's why we have the hybrid edition with a boost clock of 1677Mhz; should easily outperform the GTX 1080 AIB cards (without OC that is), while consuming less power(and we know from testing that the hybrid-cooled version consumes less power due to lower leakage).
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Less power than the air cooled version?
Besty said:
all that review says is that if i raise the power limit slider the clock speed goes up don't say the chip can't do 1800. are there any more OC reviews which go into more detail ?
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They also attempt to overclock the clock speed.

Only way you will overclock more is somehow pushing through more volts, likely requiring a bios mod.
 
Oh we know Vega has been such a long time coming, we know you are desperate for it to be released or even just to know something tangible about it, so don't worry it will be launched at Siggraph :D


Got ya, we're not showing you ####!!!!
 
Toss3 said:
Yeah, no way it would consume less power than the GTX 1080. Sorrty for being unclear about that.
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No chance it uses less power than the air cooled version either though. It will be on far higher volts given the massive clock difference.
 
Yep, water cooling will enable it to hold a stable higher clock, but that also means it will pull more power to run at that speed.

Also, the limited editions appear to be getting the top-binned chips. So don't expect great overclocking on the "peasant" editions.
 
humbug said:
AMD are at Siggraph but they will not be live steaming it.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/amd-capsaicin-siggraph-2017-tickets-35520337285

https://twitter.com/RadeonPro/status/891109514845372417

Someone told me it was because Siggraph banned streaming but on investigating that it doesn't appear to be the case, plenty of Siggraph streams going out...

http://s2017.siggraph.org/live-streaming-sessions

AMD with Vega is getting utterly ridiculous now. :mad:
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I am gob-smacked tbh there not streaming

So you will all have to make do with the AMD BBS Bulletin board system

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