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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

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Nvidia probably likes to trip up AMD in the PR dept in order to present themselves in a better light. I think what AMD still need to get a grip on is consumer focus, I get it that they are not ready to do a full product launch of Vega yet but I don't think they understand that the lack useful information is intolerable to high-end gamers. All it does is say "we will compete on price/performance but we won't be leading the performance until developers fully adopt the GCN architecture which btw might not happen on the games you play now or in the future"... and that is not enough to win over the high-end. A 480X will be refreshed and compete with Volta at some point but that is an irrelevance to high end gamers.

Raja seems like a nice chap maybe time to send him a nice Tweet.
 
I predict Vega will have great hardware but AMD will launch it in a rush with a some issue,software problem or something that that they have missed and say it will be fixed at some point.

Enthusiasts will give AMD some leeway as we know what they are like,ie,the card will deliver in the end,but normal gamers will think meh and just get an Nvidia card.

For a company full of such clever people,they cannot do a launch to save their lives and its fast becoming a problem.

+1, always the same, everytime they release a new card, they just increase Nvidias sales, as i said before, people want to buy on release day, if they are no good on that day, then on that day, the buy button is hit on a Nvidia card, as they have the money there and then, and most of the time, had it for months waiting, its no good them sorting their drivers out in the next 6/8+ months, so that their cards are at a parity with those Nvidia cards that were smashing them to bits on that release day, or are beating them, as by then, they've already lost the sales.

Ryzen looks to be the same, no Windows driver (from what ive read), they need better BIOS, this that and the other to sort them out, so why on earth did they release them now, when they were clearly not ready.

Im still sticking with my Vega prediction, and thats that it will be lucky to beat the 1070, they have only showed it running Vulkan and Dx12, 2 APIs that are hardly used yet, Vulkan, 1 or 2 games so far, DX12, its been patched into a few Dx11 games laters, wheres the Dx11 performance, the Dx11 thats here now, and in a massive amount of games now, and will still be coming in a lot of games, for quite some time to come yet, well, we saw why they only showed Ryzen just running Cinebench etc.... and not games, so i think we've had that question answered, judging by their gaming performance, that we are now seeing, now that they've actually been released.
 
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Ryzen looks to be the same, no Windows driver (from what ive read), they need better BIOS, this that and the other to sort them out, so why on earth did they release them now, when they were clearly not ready.

Not only does Windows 10 handle the CPU wrong because of no driver, but AMD failed to even send hardware to AIDA64, which means the benchmark wasn't updated for the new platform either.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same happened with some other benchmark developers.

Shooting themselves in the legs just as they're about the cross the finishing line on an amazing price to performance competitor product.

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I know, but with every release of their next massively hyped hardware comes just more disappointment. I'm just a little worried by their recent track record.

They rushed it all, more reviewers are coming out stating they're getting very good performance gains on more up to date motherboards. Either they( mobo makers ) were slacking, or AMD rushed the launched of Ryzen.
German review site Golem.de has found that the motherboards do seem to be a big culprit for performance issues. They need new BIOSs, and Ryzen needs that Windows update for core and CCX management before getting better and more consistent performance.

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The MSI board was delivered with BIOS version 113, until last Friday a new one appeared.

Version 117, which is still up-to-date, improved speed and stability. If we were still able to count on sporadic Bluescreens with the older UEFI, the board is currently stable. Much more important, however, is the drastically higher performance in games and the real pack with 7-Zip. The release notes include, among other things, a fixed problem with the memory act and its timing as well as the voltage.

Compared to the original bios, the new UEFI increases the image rate in our game course between plus 4 and plus 26 percent, on the average even plus 17 percent!
 
I hear ya but you would seriously miss the sync tech if you go NVidia.
Freesync is the ONLY reason I haven't gone Nvidia, even on a 290 it's such an improvement.... FPS are dropping though.
I might pick up a Vega card, but not on release, will wait to see what's not working first, as that seems an inevitability, and how fast the fixes are predicted :(
 
I'm seriously close to just giving up on Freesync and getting a 1080ti. It's the same old AMD really, I expect Vega to be no different.

Theres plenty with FreeSync gone Nvidia, and don't regret it, and im doing the same, i think anyone who won't just because of it, is off their rocker tbh, as theres no way id enjoy gaming having to turn all my settings down because i either don't have enough vram, or to keep my frames up, when i could just get a Nvidia card, and enjoy gaming with my settings ramped to the hilt, and at blistering frame-rates.
 
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Theres plenty with FreeSync gone Nvidia, and don't regret it, and im doing the same, i think anyone who won't just because of it, is off their rocker tbh.

The best game to date for me is the Witcher 3 I have tested this on my TV setup and freesync setup and the difference is night and day.. Game is so smooth it feels like am playing above 60fps when in fact and high 40s low 50fps most of the time.
Edit worth noting also TV is 1080p mostly 60fps and Monitor 1440p with FPS above and Freesync still feels better to me.

So Freesync does play a big part for me when I choosing GPU but its not the full story. For me I just want upgrade anything over a 290 from VEGA will be a nice upgrade even if the 1080 or Ti is some what faster I count careless I dont benchmark so the results will be hardly noticeable.
Think so meany people are so fast to jump and shout are very little performance differences tbh Game changing Frame rates is what we should all care about not 5fps here or 10fps there

But thats just me! :D
 
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