AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

JediFragger · 29 May 2017 at 12:39

TNA said:
We are approaching 600 pages before Vega release as I predicted.

Switch it to 100 posts per page, much better.

Kaapstad · 29 May 2017 at 12:48

JediFragger said:
Switch it to 100 posts per page, much better.

My dustbin can not handle that amount of garbage found in this thread, let alone my poor monitor !!!

Blackjack Davy · 29 May 2017 at 12:56

N19h7m4r3 said:
Yeah, it all just happens. My Titan X Maxwell died within a few days, and so did my R9 390X. It happens sadly.

Worst GPU death for me wa an 8800GTS in a friend's PC when we had a LAN; the one CAP on it blew. Made us all jump!

While at the same time I've had an AMD 4670 and GTX 470 since their launches, and are perfectly fine. The GTX 470 went to a friend as her first desktop I put together from salvaged parts, and it's still ticking. While the 4670 is a reliable back up card for me, used it last year for over 3 months.

The only card that was DOA was an Nvidia FX5600, blew the PSU too. Flash, bang, lots of smoke, quite spectacular. Still hurts after all this time never did get the money back for the replacement PSU.

shankly1985 said:
Same
Am willing to bet these guys that had black screen was pushing a GPU overclock that wasn't stable.
When I was just starting out trying overclocking I pushed the memory to high and that resulted in games black screening.

Unstable overclocks usually results in wierd screen artifacts for me on me 390/Fury I've only ever had one card blackscreen on me and thats my current 1080 FTW and I believe thats the VRM's overheating issue. I'm still running a custom afterburner profile for that.

shankly1985 · 29 May 2017 at 13:23

Blackjack Davy said:
The only card that was DOA was an Nvidia FX5600, blew the PSU too. Flash, bang, lots of smoke, quite spectacular. Still hurts after all this time never did get the money back for the replacement PSU.

Unstable overclocks usually results in wierd screen artifacts for me on me 390/Fury I've only ever had one card blackscreen on me and thats my current 1080 FTW and I believe thats the VRM's overheating issue. I'm still running a custom afterburner profile for that.

Artifacts come from a core overclock to much without the required voltage bump. Memory pushed to far results in a black out. Least in my experience of Overclocking.

LoadsaMoney · 29 May 2017 at 13:27

I'll not be watching, i'll just read the usual in here afterwards

shankly1985 · 29 May 2017 at 13:36

I might i'll be up anyways. Early hours is my day time because my working hours. 4pm-1am I don't go bed till after 4am normally anyways

Diagro · 29 May 2017 at 13:47

I'm bored.
Any news yet?

V F · 29 May 2017 at 13:47

beany_bot said:
I'm willing to bet Nvidia and AMD cards fail at the same rate. After all, other than EVGA and Sapphire (both very good) they are the same board partners.

I loved the Sapphire X1950XTX cards. They were solid though a tad noisy since they were blower. Red, silver and copper. Yum.

nashathedog said:
You missed a few like Zotac, XFX. HIS, KFA2, Palit & Powercolor,
I'm sure I missed a few too.

Didn't XFX used to get a lot of bad reputation? Though I didn't experience it myself. Their Radeon 5870 Black Edition was solid.

TNA · 29 May 2017 at 13:48

JediFragger said:
Switch it to 100 posts per page, much better.

I had that on the old site, but changed it back to normal. Better as you can easily keep track of pages logged in or out.

LoadsaMoney said:
I'll not be watching, i'll just read the usual in here afterwards

No you won't. You will be reading it at your favourite site (wccftech) first

Diagro said:
I'm bored.
Any news yet?

Check this out.

Link

hyperseven · 29 May 2017 at 14:10

Will the gaming version be called Vega or will it have a alphanumeric designation like all other cards?

LoadsaMoney · 29 May 2017 at 14:23

TNA said:
No you won't. You will be reading it at your favourite site (wccftech) first

kylew_is_back · 29 May 2017 at 14:35

beany_bot said:
Im willing to bet there is no data to suggest AMD fail more often than Nvidia.
And it really Vega the question. You have openly said you will not be buying AMD again. So why are you in this thread?

I really want to get VEGA but I am simply too afraid to try another AMD card, if only I have some reassurance from AMD at computex, something like this "VEGA will be 1000% black screen free".

Sargatanas2511 said:
Saying AMD cards give you "black screens" is not really helpful and if multiple cards have done it then I would suggest it's more likely another issue.

AMD cards are the issue

Had a HD7950 that worked perfectly fine for a year or so, and then it starts to give black screens, replace it with a new R9 280(same gpu really) and black screens immediately stop, so the HD7950 was responsible here.

Now with the 390 it is on a completely different system, my 390 again worked perfectly fine for around 20 months and suddenly it starts to giving me black screens.

Journey · 29 May 2017 at 14:42

kylew_is_back said:
I really want to get VEGA but I am simply too afraid to try another AMD card, if only I have some reassurance from AMD at computex, something like this "VEGA will be 1000% black screen free".

Are you 12? I've never read any thing so ridiculous (except maybe on Reddit).

Klo · 29 May 2017 at 14:56

Journey said:
Are you 12? I've never read any thing so ridiculous (except maybe on Reddit).

kylew_is_back said:
I really want to get VEGA but I am simply too afraid to try another AMD card, if only I have some reassurance from AMD at computex, something like this "VEGA will be 1000% black screen free".

AMD cards are the issue

Had a HD7950 that worked perfectly fine for a year or so, and then it starts to give black screens, replace it with a new R9 280(same gpu really) and black screens immediately stop, so the HD7950 was responsible here.

Now with the 390 it is on a completely different system, my 390 again worked perfectly fine for around 20 months and suddenly it starts to giving me black screens.

AMD cards have a pretty similar failure rate to Nvidia cards, you might be unlucky with them, but that doesn't mean they are intrinsically more likely to fail. I'm sure there a lots of people with multiple Nvidia cards that have failed.

V F · 29 May 2017 at 14:59

So many issues so many black screens with so many cards? Has to be another issue causing all that surely.

Howling · 29 May 2017 at 15:02

V F said:
So many issues so many black screens with so many cards? Has to be another issue causing all that surely.

Don't go bringing your common sense into this. You'll upset someone ;D

LoadsaMoney · 29 May 2017 at 15:03

hyperseven said:
Will the gaming version be called Vega or will it have a alphanumeric designation like all other cards?

Its called RX Vega.

kylew_is_back · 29 May 2017 at 15:16

V F said:
So many issues so many black screens with so many cards? Has to be another issue causing all that surely.

didn't read my previous post?

HD7950 worked perfectly fine for a long period of time before it starts black screen on me, replace it with a new R9 280 and I didn't get any black screens after that.

Now on a completely different system the 390 worked perfectly fine for a long period of time before it starts black screen on me.

What do you think is causing all that? I will tell you, AMD incompetence...

LoadsaMoney · 29 May 2017 at 15:18

Two More AMD RX Vega Variants, D12 and D05, Pass RRA Certification

http://wccftech.com/two-more-amd-rx-vega-variants-d12-and-d05-pass-rra-certification/

Sargatanas2511 · 29 May 2017 at 15:20

kylew_is_back said:
didn't read my previous post?

HD7950 worked perfectly fine for a long period of time before it starts black screen on me, replace it with a new R9 280 and I didn't get any black screens after that.

Now on a completely different system the 390 worked perfectly fine for a long period of time before it starts black screen on me.

What do you think is causing all that? I will tell you, AMD incompetence...

Did you do ANY testing at all to come to that conclusion or are you just trying to convince yourself that this could be the only possibility?

It could be anything from an overclock going wonky to a power supply not giving enough power but it has to be the cards right? I have had a 9700pro>X800XT PE>X1900>3870>4870>5870>7970>390X and had no black screen issues whatsoever.