Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[V F]

Wow, that's bad.

Yet I've read users posting a lot about NVIDIA planned obsolescence... So what is this? They're all the same. We all get the short end of the stick.

 

[opethdisciple]

But thats just not supporting an O.S not gimping old but capable hardware. There is a difference.

 

[V F]

You're still not supporting. Bugs, tough.

 

[Rroff]

Windows 8 hardly a big loss now if it wasn't working for 7 that would be another story

 

[FoxEye]

From the video I believe they are comparing an air cooled card where the fans are powered by the card (so will show up in power draw) against an AIO externally powered.

31W is way too much simply as a consequence if temperature.

What would have been smarter is to just run the AIO card at different fan speeds and then measured the power draw difference.



Flawed test imo. Not like for like.

Indeed. In fact it seems, from watching the build log video, that the AIO they modded onto the Air FE wasn't even cooling the VRMs, so they were running external fans to cool those...

So in short all they did was to measure the power of the GPU (chip only) and pretty much ignored the power to run the extra VRM fans or the AIO cooler.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

 

[queamin]

You know the performance isn't there when they are bundling it with a gimmicky cube

Don't worry Nvidia are going to launch a Borg cube it will be better than Amd's .

 

[Fishbait]

Don't worry Nvidia are going to launch a Borg cube it will be better than Amd's .

We will assimilate asynchronous compute

 

[B12B6]

Don't worry Nvidia are going to launch a Borg cube it will be better than Amd's .

And its better because you will have to buy 200$ gsync module in it. More expensive is always better.

 

[spoffle]

Yet I've read users posting a lot about NVIDIA planned obsolescence... So what is this? They're all the same. We all get the short end of the stick.

Planned obsolescence is something completely different. It's basically a way to ensure your customers feel a need to upgrade at best, and building stuff to break just after the warranty runs out at worst.

 

[spoffle]

And its better because you will have to buy 200$ gsync module in it. More expensive is always better.

*B-Sync

 

[AMDPower]

I don't want to pay £50 extra for a bloody cube. I want to pay extra for performance not extra crap in the box.

Performance AMD, PERFORMANCE.

 

[erazor51]

I don't want to pay £50 extra for a bloody cube. I want to pay extra for performance not extra crap in the box.

Performance AMD, PERFORMANCE.

Then buy the normal version! Cube is only if you purchase the limited edition model.

 

[Toss3]

Then buy the normal version! Cube is only if you purchase the limited edition model.

"special edition" - the limited edition is just overclocked as I understand it.

 

[nashathedog]

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.

Where did the binned chips news come from?

 

[AMDPower]

https://videocardz.com/71393/amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-rumored-pricing-and-clocks

Radeon RX Vega 64 Clock Speeds
leaked clock speeds are courtesy of VCZ.

• AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid: base 1406 MHz / boost 1677 MHz
• AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited: base 1247 MHz / boost 1546 MHz
• AMD Radeon RX Vega 64: base 1247 MHz / boost 1546 MHz

 

[Erik13]

Does that cube support freesync ?

 

[shankly1985]

Wow, that's bad.

Why? It's a horrible OS anyway get on 10 or drop down to 7
The user bases numbers have dropped so much it's pointless wasting extra testing time on a 8.1 Windows.

 

[Dianbobo]

Does that cube support freesync ?

No lfc no purchase

 

[spoffle]

"Increasing the fan RPM to 51dBA and sustaining about 80-83C on the core, we see that power consumption is around 26A from the PSU, whereas the Hybrid card’s power consumption – with temperatures around 43C – sits closer to the 23.4A mark. This is also largely unchanging from the start of the test to the end, while the air-cooled card scales from about 22A to 26A over the period of the test. After the relatively short burn-in period, the air-cooled card is drawing an additional 2.6A over the hybrid mod, resulting in a power leakage of 31W due to heat."

From: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2986-amd-vega-hybrid-mod-results-overclocking-liquid-vs-air/page-2

Does make a small difference, but yeah the pump is probably going to eat into that reduction in power consumption.

Next you'll be telling me that 2 completely different cards running at exactly the same temperature are definitely outputting the same amount of heat.