Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[Rroff]

Also, does anyone really give a monkeys what ram a card has? Surely it's purely about performance?

There are times when both AMD and nVidia have cheaped out on it to adverse effect i.e. black screens or VRAM dying prematurely - so it does matter a bit. Both for instance have had minor controversies with batches of inferior Elpida chips.

 

[Kaapstad]

Would you buy a used car from this shifty eyed chap?

https://www.techpowerup.com/235740/amd-says-vega-delays-necessary-to-increase-stock-for-gamers

 

[Toss3]

Nice price for a 32" but in my opinion the resolution is too low for that size. I would save some money and go for the 27" version. Will be higher quality due to better PPI.

I would even prefer they made a 24" one. Would be better PPI, no need for curve and probably a lot cheaper.

Was thinking about the 27" too, but 80-120Hz freesync range and no VESA support makes me a sad panda.

 

[TNA]

Was thinking about the 27" too, but 80-120Hz freesync range and no VESA support makes me a sad panda.

Yea, just saw your other post. Lost interest immediately. The only reason I was interested was because the monitor seemed have everything except the 4K resolution which I was willing to look past.

How disappointing if this is what Freesync 2 will be

 

[Toss3]

Yea, just saw your other post. Lost interest immediately. The only reason I was interested was because the monitor seemed have everything except the 4K resolution which I was willing to look past.

How disappointing if this is what Freesync 2 will be

I thought the whole point of freesync 2 would be to up the ante and actually rival g-sync monitors, but apparently not. Hopefully we'll see other manufacturers release their Freesync 2 monitors soon.

Some good news at least:
Rapid Packed Math fp16 to be used in FM Serra, Wolfenstein 2 and Far Cry 5

 

[Zeed]

I'm not sure why you felt the need to write in big letters? Regardless it doesn't change anything, A 980ti is not in the same league as a 1080. A quick google gives enough examples to prove it.

Now I'm sure you're very happy with your 980ti, I would be if I had one too and I'm sure you think or even know it's a good overclocker but don't kid yourself a 1080 is the faster card and the gap grows even bigger with the so called next gen api's.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-980-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1080/3439vs3603

Mate Pascal titam should hit my doorstep. Amd lost me Forever with VEGA waited since Pascal came out for something i could have had ages ago lol. Score is to compare to 1070 that 980ti is on pair.

 

[ubersonic]

I'm not sure why you felt the need to write in big letters? Regardless it doesn't change anything, A 980ti is not in the same league as a 1080. A quick google gives enough examples to prove it.

Agreed a 980ti is more on par with a 1070, but for what it's worth the top video is a fake clickbait one.

 

[opethdisciple]

Is the Freesync 2 range less than that of Gsync? Does it really matter with fast panels (144hz+) and enhanced sync?

 

[Rroff]

Is the Freesync 2 range less than that of Gsync? Does it really matter with fast panels (144hz+) and enhanced sync?

Its the monitor implementations rather than limits of FS2 but G-Sync is always 30-native refresh. It can matter - adaptive sync potentially means for instance you don't have to aim to as much as possible exceed 60fps but can turn some settings up and the framerate dropping a bit under is acceptable rather than juggling between the nasty effects of framerate drops with v-sync or the tearing without. Enhanced sync is nice if you are getting decent FPS but not an alternative if you are getting more varied performance.

 

[harney]

Lower the IQ, bigger the letters.

OK???

 

[jonjay]

The 980ti with a good overclock is only a little faster than a 1070 with a good overclock, This gen Nvidia made a point of making sure the -70 card couldn't get close to the -80 card as it did with Maxwell, Reviews talked about it around the release and said Nvidia did it because the 970 bit into 980 sales due to people overclocking the 970 and getting around the same performance as a 980.

There are enough results on here that show good overclocked 980ti's very close to a stock 1080.

Moral of my post is that people can get great used 980ti and the same cannot be said for AMD.

SCORE18 363 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti(1x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor
Graphics Score 21 335 Physics Score 17 912 Combined Score 9 150

That's on my TI on my x99 platform

Nice, similar to my score.

 

[disi]

I'm not sure why you felt the need to write in big letters? Regardless it doesn't change anything, A 980ti is not in the same league as a 1080. A quick google gives enough examples to prove it.

There are actual no breasts in the entire video!

 

[AllBodies]

AMD claim Vega supports 'Infinity fabric interconnect'. Any one know what that is?

I do think there might be some magic we will see in future drivers. The technology in Vega is there. It just needs tapping in to.

Interesting.

Actually I thought it might mean there might be some sort of union of GPU and CPU but alas that's not what they mean.

Is it not plausible it just uses IF to communicate with the SSD on the SSG cards?

i.e. The IF on Vega is just used by the HBCC to communicate as fast as possible with off-die resources. But currently not used for anything else.

 

[ShiWarrior]

Hmm

i have an OCZ PSU, 780W
i'll have to check how old it is, but im hoping it will run Vega, or i might just replace it anyway as im sure its before all this new certification rules come in to force

 

[Zeed]

With juice Vwga needs they should have went with psu disscount instead of monitor do t ya think??

 

[nashathedog]

Lower the IQ, bigger the letters.

OK???

Spoiler

If true mine's bigger than your's

Yay I finally came first at something.

Spoiler

If you can't beat em join em

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[nashathedog]

Nice price for a 32" but in my opinion the resolution is too low for that size. I would save some money and go for the 27" version. Will be higher quality due to better PPI.

I would even prefer they made a 24" one. Would be better PPI, no need for curve and probably a lot cheaper.

I've never seen 1440p @ 32" in real life but I think it'd be okay for me, I had the 27" 1440p Asus Dominator and like my current 34" uw1440 it make's stuff almost too small for my eye's, I think gaming would be fine as I can up it to fake 4k with vsr/dsr if the horsepower's available and I think upping the resolution looks better than lowering the res. Plus it looks like it'll take another couple more gpu generations for there to be more of a choice and cheaper gpu's capable of 4k gaming.

If I hadn't sold my Fury Pro already I'd of seriously considered getting this monitor instead of Vega as the Fury does great at 1440p and the monitor ticks all the right boxes for me.

 

[opethdisciple]

With juice Vwga needs they should have went with psu disscount instead of monitor do t ya think??

As practical as that is, they would have been a laughing stock.

 

[Brazo]

I can understand (sort of) people already owning a free sync monitor and thinking they are 'locked in' to AMD. They aren't of course but hey...

But I struggle to see why now after such a lacklustre vega release people are looking to buy a freesync monitor and tie themselves in to 'soon to be' last gen performance.

 

[ljt]

I can understand (sort of) people already owning a free sync monitor and thinking they are 'locked in' to AMD. They aren't of course but hey...

But I struggle to see why now after such a lacklustre vega release people are looking to buy a freesync monitor and tie themselves in to 'soon to be' last gen performance.

Maybe because freesync is cheaper? Thats exactly why I bought a freesync monitor and not a G-sync