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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

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TNA said:
Don't try and defend AMD, it was not GloFo's fault at all. AMD, they are trash and sooner they go bankrupt the better for us all!

Nvidia FTW, best company, never do anything wrong, always best products and they never lie to their customers, they have our best interests at heart!

/sarcasm :p
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nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

what are we meant to warm our houses with in the winter :(
 
Doogles said:
It would be stupid to release a card with 4GB VRAM as plenty of people already use more in games, to have a powerful card then limit it that hard would be suicide.
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But the VRAM on the Vega cards is not VRAM in the traditional sense, it's more like cache. The 4GB of HBM2 may work just as well as 6GB or 8GB of HBM2 used like traditional VRAM. Granted, the full details have not been revealed yet on whether it is something which will work at a hardware level or will require a lot of software optimisation, but the fact that it uses a specialised hardware controller suggests the former.
 
silversurfer said:
After a while was 640mb enough either.

I dont think there is a 4gb version unless cost relys on it especially
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Point is at the time 320mb seemed a little low but it sold well. I had one and it was magic at 1280x1024. The 640mb version definitely lasted a lot longer in the end for sure but I'd sold before it ran out of legs.
 
shankly1985 said:
You completely forgetting what really happened here LOL The 390X driver was a leaked Review driver that people hacked to get working with other GPUs
The Released official driver that AMD released not long after came with all the performance improvements for all GPUs.

Sorry but the true story don't sound has gripping has yours :( 10/10 Would read again!
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That is sort of right, AMD did a seperate driver for the 390 cards on release so that the release day reviews would show the 390's with a decent performance increase over the 290's, A couple of weeks later they went back to just one driver for all and those of us with Hawaii cards that weren't already using the hacked release day driver got a performance boost that put us on par with the 390's. You're right though his version did make it sound more exciting :D
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Second hand Fermi cards! I still a GTX 580 that's working downstairs, and gave a friend my old GTX 470.
Nothing like mid 90's when playing WoW keep the room toasty. :D
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The GTX675m in my laptop - basically a desktop GTX560 but clocks upto about GTX470 performance w/ 2GB VRAM. Had my nephews over and had it connected upto a projector, albeit 720p, for some gaming - was quite surprised at the performance in some of the latest games with settings turned up (I don't usually play much on it other than some older games when travelling).
 
Killer7xx said:
But the VRAM on the Vega cards is not VRAM in the traditional sense, it's more like cache. The 4GB of HBM2 may work just as well as 6GB or 8GB of HBM2 used like traditional VRAM. Granted, the full details have not been revealed yet on whether it is something which will work at a hardware level or will require a lot of software optimisation, but the fact that it uses a specialised hardware controller suggests the former.
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That's the same sort of claim we heard for HBM1, HBM2 will be no different regardless of the extra stuff they add this time around, 4gb's is 4gb's and when a game goes over 4 gb's the experience will suffer regardless of it being on a Fury or a Vega card.
I'm sure the 4gb model will do a great job at 1080p with some settings tweaks to keep the memory usage down but I agree with what others have been saying, releasing a card with less memory than what lower level cards have is not a smart move, When they did it with the Fury range Nvidia immediately took advantage of it making performance tank on AMD's flagship range and that was even when compared to the Grenada cards which out performed the Fiji's quite a few times over the last year, and they did that because HBM has not got any magic sauce in it and anyone hoping that this time it will be different is a glutton for punishment.
 
nashathedog said:
That's the same sort of claim we heard for HBM1, HBM2 will be no different regardless of the extra stuff they add this time around, 4gb's is 4gb's and when a game goes over 4 gb's the experience will suffer regardless of it being on a Fury or a Vega card.
I'm sure the 4gb model will do a great job at 1080p with some settings tweaks to keep the memory usage down but I agree with what others have been saying, releasing a card with less memory than what lower level cards have is not a smart move, When they did it with the Fury range Nvidia immediately took advantage of it making performance tank on AMD's flagship range and that was even when compared to the Grenada cards which out performed the Fiji's quite a few times over the last year, and they did that because HBM has not got any magic sauce in it and anyone hoping that this time it will be different is a glutton for punishment.
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^this

Plenty of bandwidth on the top NVidia cards but the real performance gains are from having 11gb or 12gb of memory and a high clock speed.

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TNA said:
Don't try and defend AMD, it was not GloFo's fault at all. AMD, they are trash and sooner they go bankrupt the better for us all!

Nvidia FTW, best company, never do anything wrong, always best products and they never lie to their customers, they have our best interests at heart!

/sarcasm :p
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good thing you put sarcasm at the end, everything you said was totally believable up to that point ...
 
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