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AMD have given up on the gaming, Polaris is for VR, Vega is for compute.
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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1
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Will be ordering a Vega card from OCUK when they become available...I expect big things from HDMI 2.1 and DP 1.4 over the next few years in terms of monitors and UHTVs and with AMD being more opensource then NV, I think most manufacturers will join up to the Freesync 2 standard. I would expect an LG OLED TV with Freesync at some stage over the new few years...
Plus always good to be open to both the best from the Green team and Red team...look forward to gaming and creating content over the next few years...it's a great time to a PC Gamer and Hardware Enthusiast (geek).
Plus always good to be open to both the best from the Green team and Red team...look forward to gaming and creating content over the next few years...it's a great time to a PC Gamer and Hardware Enthusiast (geek).
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I guess it must be impossible to make money unless you only make the best and fastest things.
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It must be hard when you're that far behind your rival, as you're releasing cards into a market, thats already gone, and gone by a good year or more, and with that year or mores back performance.
They need to match/trump Nvidia, at the same time, going toe to toe, but they can't now sadly, just not got the money, hence why their prioritys now VR and Compute, if they sell a few of those cards for gaming as well, its not gona hurt.
If all you want is a card for pure gaming, then its Nvidia you want now, as its only those who do those cards now, if you Compute, VR, want to stream game etc..., but also like to do a bit of normal PC gaming, so wont/need the absolute best performance for that, then its AMD you want.
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So that is actually not your real expectation then, you are just tricking yourself? lolThis, why im still saying, Vega be lucky to beat out the 1070
Where is your 1080Ti btw?
Yea, sounds like throwing a tantrum or something. If he got his wish it would only hurt us all in the long term.
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Speak for yourself. I would not want to go back to consoles only. I see them as a supplement to my gaming, like a Nintendo Switch.
Yeah HDMI 2.1 should be great.
A very important thing it adds is the ability to run 4K at 120/144 Hz including HDR. Impossible with current connections.
Also according to in-depth TV reviewers, the majority of the mid-high end TVs already have native 120 Hz panels (as in not including the interpolation stuff it also does).
So next year should be very interesting for buying 32-40" 4K HDR TVs to use as monitors.
I won't be replacing my monitors till HDMI 2.1 is out. And when I do, even a 40" 4K TV will have smaller pixels than my 24" 1920x1080 monitors, which is kinda mad.
Fingers crossed Vega actually has HDMI 2.1 ports...
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Any thoughts on how Vega will compare with a GTX1070?
Thinking longer term about going all AMD and Freesync when upgrade my 2500K. No real need to change my 1070 really as I game at 1440p and have barely used used it, I just don't seem to find the time at the moment.
If I could get a 50% improvement on a 1070 for a few hundred more I'd consider it, but probably wishful thinking
Thinking longer term about going all AMD and Freesync when upgrade my 2500K. No real need to change my 1070 really as I game at 1440p and have barely used used it, I just don't seem to find the time at the moment.
If I could get a 50% improvement on a 1070 for a few hundred more I'd consider it, but probably wishful thinking
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Any thoughts on how Vega will compare with a GTX1070?
Thinking longer term about going all AMD and Freesync when upgrade my 2500K. No real need to change my 1070 really as I game at 1440p and have barely used used it, I just don't seem to find the time at the moment.
If I could get a 50% improvement on a 1070 for a few hundred more I'd consider it, but probably wishful thinking
so you want 50% more power and that should help how ... since you haven't got time to play anyway?
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1) "We get something major from Nvidia yearly don't we?" Yes, 2 extra inches and no spit, you also get to pay more (disproportionate to the 2 inches a year).
2) 5yrs to go from Piledriver IPC to Ryzen is unprecedented, until you look at what happened when AMD released the original Athlon.
3) If you are that worried about AMD giving you BRAND NEW TECH and upgrading every year why are you even talking about a 1070?
4) "Why does it seem to take AMD twice as long to get anything out the door compared to Nvidia and Intel?" Because you keep buying those 2 inches instead of paying AMD to have a bigger R&D budget. It's pretty simple really.
Ultimately, you sound like an impatient person with a limited budget but want it all now. I recommend buying a console (Scorpio) when it comes out and getting another hobby. Sorry but your post makes little sense apart from that outcome. Unless, that is that you are like the other blinkered "enthusiasts" that just want AMD to have a win so that you can buy that nVidia product a "bit cheaper". Yeah, that fosters innovation for sure. Or it could be a subtle troll, regardless pick a product that you would reasonably be confident in running for 3 to 5 years, you don't have the coin to be pulse upgrading from what you've said. (only idiots and fools with more money than sense do that anyway).
My first guess was in between 1070 and 1080 but I now have a gut feeling that Vega will fall in tween the 1080 and 1080ti, just wish amd would hurry up and put me out of my miseryI think Vega should beat the 1070 no problem
This is a circular problem however - if AMD doesn't have a suitable offering when people need to buy something they can't really give AMD their money.
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I'm still rocking a R290 and it's only recently started to show it age. I'm not a hardcore gamer anymore by any stretch but it plays the battlefield series fine, and most recently Battlegrounds (although I'm crap at it). It may be true that AMD have not pushed the boundaries recently with a lot of refreshers but then when a product like the r290 still can hold its own then who really cares? How many poeple can actually afford 1080s and gsync monitors - I know I can't (well I can, but I can't justify the expense). Looking forward to Vega. I've got a freesync ultrawide so will not go back to nVidia unless they support freesync.
There was a lot of hype made about the partnership between Bethesda and AMD, as well as how Prey is optimised for Vega. Considering that Prey is coming out in 2 weeks, it seems very unlikely Vega is going to be out in time. A bit of a fail really.
Why is that a fail? As long as Prey runs well on Vega when Vega arrives its surely a win. How can you possibly not think that is a good thing if it turns out to be true?
AMD has finally taken a page out of nvidias book and by that I mean that they have started to create an appealing eco system. First they got their hardware in all major consoles, then we got fairly low cost Freesync monitors(now nvidia could shut this exclusivity down simply by supporting adaptive sync but i guess they are to proud for that), now they are going for freesync on consoles/tvs and their gpus have so fare costed less and aged better than their competitor. It looks like to me that they are playing a very long game here and it is going to be interesting to see if they succeed in the end.
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