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Poll: ASUS STRIX AMD VEGA 64, under £450, interested?
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Where did you get that figure from?
Soldato
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Yea but 1080 performance has peaked and is only going to down not up from this point onward for new games, with Nvidia shifting their software support and performance optimisation for games over toward the new architecture of RTX cards.
People really should think carefully about buying cards that are toward EOL (especially when it is from Nvidia).
If nVidia are gonna stick to a two year release schedule I don't think it'll be a problem! Vega could be EOL for all we know, AMD pretty much abandoned it (from an advertising perspective) as soon as it was released after being considered a bit of a dud. Who knows when its successor will appear though.
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I would take a Vega 64 over a 1080 at the current prices. Same/better performance, drivers that will mature better is past trends continue and cheaper entry point into freesync.
So would I, but the general gaming public wouldn't.
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The biggest difference between AMD cards and Nvidia is that majority of the performance comes from its solid (but no-so power efficient) hardware, whereas the cards such as 1080 and below are in reality mid-high range card design and they rely far heavier on Nvidia driver performance optimisation for games than AMD cards do (in reality had AMD been competitive, the 1070/1080 really should had what the 1060/1060Ti been with pricing at around £200ish price bracket).
And this is precisely why Nvidia is laughing all the way to the banks
Soldato
The only Nvidia card that make sense to me is the GTX 1080 Ti, at every other level AMD match/beat performance at a lower price. The RTX 2*** Series is to prohibitively priced for anyone without a trust fund or huge disposable income to even consider.
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It's not even about if it is someone has enough money to spend on the card or can afford it or not, it is a matter of principle.
I know some people are arguing that they are willing to drop over 1 grand for the 2080ti because they got a large enough disposable income to spend and enjoy the fastest and latest, but they don't really question if they should feed Nvidia's ego and their ways of seeing the consumers as cows to be milked.
It is like trying to argue and defend a greedy ex-wife of a billionaire keep on asking for more and more money for spousal maintenance payments, just because it is a small sum (relatively) to what the husband's worth/own/make.
Because the general plebs fall for the marketing and don't really know what they are buying. So they pay far more for less :/
I mean...Apple...
Soldato
Sadly this has been the story ever since the fall of 3DFX, even when AMD/ATi have been conclusively dominating Nvidia they have still been getting outsold by orders of magnitude.
Hopefully Intel's entry into the market will cause some big waves as they are a bigger name than Nvidia. Having said that hopefully AMD don't get lost in the shuffle and become the Cyrix of the GPU market.
Soldato
Might be good for AMD to leave DGPU space to Intel and Nvidia in the future, AMD could just focus on CPU, console, server cpu/gpu. There are too many Nvida devotees, even if AMD bring a faster / cheaper card people will still buy Nvidia ..
Seems like a lost market to me, I mean look at the prices people are pre ordering at with no performance benchmarks. Madness?
Only way I could see Intel or AMD gaining ground on Nvidia is having a card twice as fast for less than half the price. Tbh even then I think the majority of
Soldato
wrong thread
Soldato
Gents you forget a crucial thing. Intel doesn't have the patents needed to make a competitive GPU. Neither Nvidia nor AMD are leasing those to Intel and they will never do.
The intel GPU is going straight for computing/AI and not for graphics, let alone gaming.
The intel GPU is going straight for computing/AI and not for graphics, let alone gaming.
They have a lifetime licence for any of Nvidia's patents up to 2017, that means they can easily make a Pascal grade GPU without doing any actual work, are you saying Pascal isn't competitive?
Trying to get authorisation from Asus to just take 100, they are still resisting and I refuse to take 500, so its a stalemate.
However we have a deal from Sapphire, arriving late this week or next week on Nitro VEGA 64 at £499 Inc. VAT which is a cracking price for that card. Only 120 units mind, so doubt they will last long.
However we have a deal from Sapphire, arriving late this week or next week on Nitro VEGA 64 at £499 Inc. VAT which is a cracking price for that card. Only 120 units mind, so doubt they will last long.
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Wow, that's a GREAT card Gibbo! I'd take that all day long over an Asus, even at the extra money
And just so soooooooo cool looking
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As I have the card, is an absolute beast.
The cooler is superb and if you have good air flow you wont hear the card if you use some downvolting which improve performance on it also. (i have posted settings for it)
Also comes with scaffolding (aka bracket) so the card won't bend. (see picture in V64 owners discussion).
The cooler is superb and if you have good air flow you wont hear the card if you use some downvolting which improve performance on it also. (i have posted settings for it)
Also comes with scaffolding (aka bracket) so the card won't bend. (see picture in V64 owners discussion).
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