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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

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nashathedog said:
I'd wait if I was you, Now is the wrong time to go buying a new GPU regardless of brand, Apparently AMD plan to do refreshes of the 400 series and after that Vega will finally come.
I'm guessing you do not buy graphics cards that often and with Nvidia overpricing the high end Pascal cards and the 480 not being a worthy replacement for you you'd be best served waiting, Before my current card I was running a 290x, At the time I had a 1080p monitor but I ran all my games at 1440p using AMD's VSR and the 290x did a good job so even if you buy the monitor first you'll still be gaming okay and Vega should offer us both a solid improvement, That's over your 290x at 1440p and my Fury pro at UW 1440.
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Yep, you are correct. I bought my R9 290 in October 2014 from OCUK for £199.99. Around a year ago I upgraded from an i7 860 to a 6600k, so you can see that I tend to hold on to my components for a long time. I've heard about the 500 series and perhaps the RX 580 could be for me if it offers 20% over my current card. Looking to be able to hit 60fps at 1440p. Ideally I want to get a 32" 1440p monitor (same DPI as 24" 1080p) and these monitors don't have freesync, so I need to hit 60fps, or put up with 30fps.
 
alec said:
Vega is on schedule, but competition for 1080 is a year too late, whatever you call it
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I feel this is AMDs biggest issue right now and have been for a few years. They make good products. The 2 7950 i had in crossfire were great, the 5850 i had before that was also great, my current rx 480 is a mean little beast but as of late they are well... late to the party so by the time they release people have become to impatient myself included and therefor goes with the competitions offerings. I really wish they will be able to turn this around over time and actually offer competing products at or before the competition launches theirs.

alec said:
20% is not good upgrade (well, your power efficiency might actually double, and that is worth something)
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Yet gtx 1080 owners are flogging to upgrade to the 1080ti for some reason..
 
humbug said:
I have waited too long already, i'm done waiting..... i would have had a 1070 2 weeks ago but got #### over by Ebay, took me 2 weeks to get my money back.
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Lol. Should have just got the 1070 on release, had your fun and catch up with your backlog of games like I did. Sell before price plummets and get Vega :D
 
Phixsator said:
my current rx 480 is a mean little beast but as of late they are well... late to the party so by the time they release people have become to impatient myself included and therefor goes with the competitions offerings.
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My take on that AMD had a whole epiphany moment, a paradigm change which while possibly good also means bigger lag time to their upcoming changes. Could be false, somehow Zen indicates its at least a possible they are doing things different this time. Call it turbo lag :)
At this moment I use a 4870 to play csgo, nobody is going to beat me on the why are you even waiting aspect. I had a newer card which didnt last long and Im not bothering to replace till impressed by something new, Vulkan seems good. I just imagine Vega is going to be mythical and it'll be worth holding off for, otherwise I'll just keep playing through loads of old games I liked but never finished

https://youtu.be/cVVJPbFRDEc?t=366
Vega should beat crossfire 480 on price and performance, if thats the case it'll be above the 1080ti?

MSTRBKR said:
Yep, you are correct. I bought my R9 290 in October 2014 from OCUK for £199.99
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Sterling was 1.6 to a dollar in Oct 2014 and its been falling ever since. It shouldnt be relevant but it is, its now closer to 1.2 so before comparing prices you may need to adjust your aim.
If you want a worse case scenario, 1.71 was peak Sterling worth 2014 and say 1.1 on some nasty news now, so thats like the old £200 price point turning into now a £300 category of cards. I do think Sterling finds its feet this year and wont goto 1.1 but in terms of purchasing power for 2017 the damage is already done. For Pi which is UK made then its not such a thing but this type of cutting edge tech in limited supply I think thats how it is.
Call it reverse depreciation, in that it makes your old card look far better then it normally would
 
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TNA said:
Yes, apparently it will be Vega architecture taking on the 1080 for around £250 and be available for pre-order on the first day of April! :eek:

You heard it here first folks! HYPE!!!!! :p
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humbug said:
RX 480 too, yeah, it still burns :p
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There's also a limited edition run where the first 100 ordered come with both a pinch and a punch and then there's the super limited edition where the first 10 orders also come with a flick and a kick. :D
 
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MSTRBKR said:
Yep, you are correct. I bought my R9 290 in October 2014 from OCUK for £199.99. Around a year ago I upgraded from an i7 860 to a 6600k, so you can see that I tend to hold on to my components for a long time. I've heard about the 500 series and perhaps the RX 580 could be for me if it offers 20% over my current card. Looking to be able to hit 60fps at 1440p. Ideally I want to get a 32" 1440p monitor (same DPI as 24" 1080p) and these monitors don't have freesync, so I need to hit 60fps, or put up with 30fps.
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30 fps is no good, Certain games I'm happy in the forties but the more the merrier.
 
AllBodies said:
Do we know for certain that Vega 10 is the small one?

Any direct source?
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No idea sorry... that's why I added the ? It was explained by AMD that the numbers 10 & 11 are not an indicator of size, just which one came first (was the same for Polaris). Doing some googling it seems everyone is split about which is smaller.
 
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