Radeon VII

Vince · 8 Feb 2019 at 15:44

fizzy said:
Just opened the retail box - and there is the card, and a small quick install guide. That's it. No adapters, cables, driver CD etc. Very bare bones? I got power cable adapters, video adaptors and a driver cd etc with 980ti. Is this how all cards are now?

Yep mines the same but it does have a driver CD. I guess that's what gigabyte are charging the extra £150 for

Scougar · 8 Feb 2019 at 15:46

Don't get me wrong, the 590 is a great card, and would be a good buy if the 56 wasn't discounted so well. I just think it is a little overpriced. (They started at around 279ish originally on release? Too high. Prices seem to have dropped to 230ish on some)

LoadsaMoney · 8 Feb 2019 at 16:26

Oops, wrong thread

Illuminist · 8 Feb 2019 at 18:01

Vince said:
Yep mines the same but it does have a driver CD. I guess that's what gigabyte are charging the extra £150 for

Dpd screwed me so hard today first they deliver it to the wrong house and say I'm not in Then after calling they say its coming at the end of the delivery run, now they say its back at the depot and I have to wait till Monday, even though a guy on the phone promised a Saturday delivery of it didn't come today Total joke.

Luckily overclockers are awesome when I called and they sorted it, it will now come tomorrow hopefully

malachi · 8 Feb 2019 at 18:04

fizzy said:
Just opened the retail box - and there is the card, and a small quick install guide. That's it. No adapters, cables, driver CD etc. Very bare bones? I got power cable adapters, video adaptors and a driver cd etc with 980ti. Is this how all cards are now?

If its Sapphire then yes. Same with my Vega 64 when I purchased it on release.

I was like "cut backs for such an expensive GPU! Are they that tight now?!?!?!"

drskiba · 8 Feb 2019 at 18:13

The Radeon VII is glorious, I have no idea why so many reviews have complained about the noise. Under normal gaming use, mines has been very quiet. I'm thrilled, it seems to perform 20-30% faster than my Red Devil Vega 64, looks amazing too (https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/the-radeon-vii-owners-thread.18845346/page-4#post-32494613)

Kelt · 8 Feb 2019 at 18:21

Illuminist said:
Dpd screwed me so hard today first they deliver it to the wrong house and say I'm not in Then after calling they say its coming at the end of the delivery run, now they say its back at the depot and I have to wait till Monday, even though a guy on the phone promised a Saturday delivery of it didn't come today Total joke.

Luckily overclockers are awesome when I called and they sorted it, it will now come tomorrow hopefully

Yeh, I've had the old "knocked on door and nobody in" from DPD before.

When I stayed in all day waiting for the delivery.

shankly1985 · 8 Feb 2019 at 18:24

D.P. said:
Except those figures are not the actual required VRAM, just what is sitting in VRAM because it is needless to flush out unused memory.

Windows 10 Task manager is supposed to show the correct Vram reading. And at 1440p Resi 2 uses 7.7GB Vram on my VEGA 64. AMD on screen display reads 10+ So I guess that is reading like you said cached ram. If AMD got their numbers from Task manager it could very well be correct.

Gerard · 8 Feb 2019 at 18:33

shankly1985 said:
Windows 10 Task manager is supposed to show the correct Vram reading. And at 1440p Resi 2 uses 7.7GB Vram on my VEGA 64. AMD on screen display reads 10+ So I guess that is reading like you said cached ram. If AMD got their numbers from Task manager it could very well be correct.

Bitwit managed 15 gigs with resident evil :eek:

shankly1985 · 8 Feb 2019 at 18:40

An interesting bench test here

https://www.computerbase.de/2019-02...l-of-duty-black-ops-4-8-gb-vs-16-gb-3840-2160

pete910 · 8 Feb 2019 at 19:12

opps, wrong thread

Gandahar · 8 Feb 2019 at 19:20

This seems to be Ati's attempt at the 5800U.

The 5800 Ultra came out slower and hotter than the good old 9700. Dead in the water.

This card has a good 7nm process but is tied to 16GB of overly expensive memory and so ends up costing the same as it's competitor whilst running a dustblower.....

How things change.

Not that I am an nvidia fanboy. I hoped they would get a real kicking after all the price gouging and other stuff, but not this time it seems. We await Navi, this seems to be an attempt to muscle in as first 7nm and has not really delivered.

For the sake of our wallets I hope Ati nails it soon.

Gerard · 8 Feb 2019 at 19:29

Gandahar said:
This seems to be Ati's attempt at the 5800U.

The 5800 Ultra came out slower and hotter than the good old 9700. Dead in the water.

This card has a good 7nm process but is tied to 16GB of overly expensive memory and so ends up costing the same as it's competitor whilst running a dustblower.....

How things change.

Not that I am an nvidia fanboy. I hoped they would get a real kicking after all the price gouging and other stuff, but not this time it seems. We await Navi, this seems to be an attempt to muscle in as first 7nm and has not really delivered.

For the sake of our wallets I hope Ati nails it soon.

Not even remotely close to the dustbuster.

Scougar · 8 Feb 2019 at 19:31

Kelt said:
Yeh, I've had the old "knocked on door and nobody in" from DPD before.

When I stayed in all day waiting for the delivery.

Report it to OCUK, so they can get their money back for a failed delivery.

Kelt · 8 Feb 2019 at 19:33

Scougar said:
Report it to OCUK, so they can get their money back for a failed delivery.

I did at the time, left a note in CS.

Harlequin · 8 Feb 2019 at 19:33

I used to own the dustbuster and this isn't vaguely close to it at all.

edit: Are people forgetting the George Forman grill that sat on top of Thermi?

ShiWarrior · 8 Feb 2019 at 20:38

Bosch dustbuster? I sold mine and got the Flexi hose one, great for doing my car, house, and pc

ltron · 8 Feb 2019 at 20:41

Gandahar said:
This seems to be Ati's attempt at the 5800U.

The 5800 Ultra came out slower and hotter than the good old 9700. Dead in the water.

This card has a good 7nm process but is tied to 16GB of overly expensive memory and so ends up costing the same as it's competitor whilst running a dustblower.....

How things change.

Not that I am an nvidia fanboy. I hoped they would get a real kicking after all the price gouging and other stuff, but not this time it seems. We await Navi, this seems to be an attempt to muscle in as first 7nm and has not really delivered.

For the sake of our wallets I hope Ati nails it soon.

It's not ATI anymore unfortunately, they knew what they were doing.

Poneros · 9 Feb 2019 at 00:27

chroniclard said:
Not sure 20 pence a day is going to do a lot.

#hodl

Phixsator · 9 Feb 2019 at 09:54

Gibbo said:
100% agreed, but believe it or not 590 is massively outselling 580 for us, the sales are nothing short of incredible, I think it might be because people perceive the 1060 as better than 580 (it is not) but people truly know the 590 is a slam dunk and is why they buy it as such.

Here in DK the 8gb rx 580 cost about the same as the rx 590. Roughly 20-30 pounds between the cheapest rx 580 and the sapphire nitro 590. I know which one i would pick.