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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

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fs123 said:
If there was a 1080 level card for £350 it would sell extremely well. At the moment even the 1070 is more than that price due to lack of competition. You forget that the majority of people do not buy £600+ cards.

I think a highend only card will not help AMD gain market share so they need to release competitively priced cards at different tiers, especially the 1070 performance bracket.
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They need cards all across the board, you're right, but AMD just as much needs a top tier card that can beat nVidias offering, or be cheaper than nVidia at same perf level to improve it's public image. It doesn't matter if AMD has better cards everywhere except top, cause that's where uninformed buyers look - the top. If nV holds the fastest card, they will most likely buy nV at lower tiers too, because "nVidia is faster".
 
Sixense said:
They need cards all across the board, you're right, but AMD just as much needs a top tier card that can beat nVidias offering, or be cheaper than nVidia at same perf level to improve it's public image. It doesn't matter if AMD has better cards everywhere except top, cause that's where uninformed buyers look - the top. If nV holds the fastest card, they will most likely buy nV at lower tiers too, because "nVidia is faster".
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This is likely to be true for significant amount of uninformed buyers.

That is why I do not have an issue if AMD can bring out a card that is the fastest card for them to charge silly money's for it. Then for the one lower tier that is 10-20% slower to charge a very competitive price for it.

By doing this they will cater for people like me who buy the best price for performance high end card and at the same time have a premium ultra high end card where they can charge silly money's for it like Nvidia do with the Titan range.
 
Toss3 said:
History has taught us that nothing short of 10-15% will make people upgrade from what they have now, granted the price difference isn't huge
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...unless they're looking to invest in Freesync technology. Even if it only matches a 1080 on performance I'll pick one up for that reason alone, unless its grossly overpriced.
 
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Doom112 said:
it is very close to GTX 1080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUWxu_C6QZM

So they will take another 7-9 months to launch a "so called revaluation competitor against Titan X/ GTX 1080 TI".
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I wouldn't call that "very close", its hovering around the low to mid 50's, occasionally a little over 60 but also occasionally a little under 50. my guess is that one is also overcloked.

The Vega one was V-Sync looked pretty much solid to 60 FPS. there is at least a 15% average difference in performance here, what it actually is we don't know because the Vega one is capped to 60.
 
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humbug said:
I wouldn't call that "very close", its hovering around the low to mid 50's, occasionally a little over 60 but also occasionally a little under 50. my guess is that one is also overcloked.

The Vega one was V-Sync looked pretty much solid to 60 FPS. there is at least a 15% average difference in performance here, what it actually is we don't know because the Vega one is capped to 60.
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No that GPU is bottleneck at PCIE 2.0 due to 2600k processor on 4k and it is a reference card.
 
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