Radeon VII

4K8KW10 · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:08

ShiWarrior said:
just download the driver uninstaller thing (cant remember whats its called)
run that, take card out, put new one in

DDU. https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Brazo · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:10

CuriousTomCat said:
Possibly but when drivers mature it will defo be 2nd. I dont even know why I'm getting excited, I've never bought a high end card in my life. The RX cards are the kind of budget I'm confortable with.

Possibly but when drivers mature it will defo be 2nd. I dont even know why I'm getting excited, I've never bought a high end card in my life. The RX cards are the kind of budget I'm confortable with.

Don’t forget RTX drivers are also immature and DLSS isn’t yet a thing.

4K8KW10 · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:27

Vish Petrol said:
When taking out my 1070 and putting this in is there any way that I can do it without wiping my PC completely?

You do this, run as administrator and then:

MeddlE · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:32

Good luck finding a NEW 1080Ti for £650.
As for current options in the market it is the Radeon VII or the RTX 2080. What with the degradation issues with GDDR6 I personally think the nVidia option is too big of a gamble.

As an owner of a 970GTX I'd personally go for the Radeon.

Maybe they will sort the GDDR6 issues (I'm sure they will) but for now who knows how long the current batch will take to fully degrade. Some are going within days, others may take months and therefore people may think their card is okay only to find out at a much later date that it isn't.

I'm not sure why some people feel the need to post negatively in a thread about a product they have no intention of buying though. Who are they hoping to convince?

Vish Petrol · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:33

ShiWarrior said:
just download the driver uninstaller thing (cant remember whats its called)
run that, take card out, put new one in

4K8KW10 said:
DDU. https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

4K8KW10 said:
You do this, run as administrator and then:

Thanks

arc@css · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:33

CuriousTomCat said:
The Radeon VII is actually equal in performance to the 1080Ti

Yes, I remember from the videos showing it was close between these two. At least now they've got something which sits at a very high tier.

Vish Petrol · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:34

MeddlE said:
Good luck finding a NEW 1080Ti for £650.
As for current options in the market it is the Radeon VII or the RTX 2080. What with the degradation issues with GDDR6 I personally think the nVidia option is too big of a gamble.

As an owner of a 970GTX I'd personally go for the Radeon.

Maybe they will sort the GDDR6 issues (I'm sure they will) but for now who knows how long the current batch will take to fully degrade. Some are going within days, others may take months and therefore people may think their card is okay only to find out at a much later date that it isn't.

I'm not sure why some people feel the need to post negatively in a thread about a product they have no intention of buying though. Who are they hoping to convince?

I think the GDDR6 issues were sorted by switching from Micron to Samsung

Zeed · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:39

JediFragger said:
For people saying 'wait for drivers bruh, massive improvements comin' ya' you do realise that 7 is just a shrunken Vega right? No architectural improvements, just the same stuff we've seen on the previous one. There isn't a great deal left in the tank I don't think (bar a couple of surprises no doubt).

OI dont break their Bubble.. They forgot it was 100% what AMD said when Vega Frontier came out. DONT WORRY GUYSSSS It's not gaming card just wait for proper Gaming drivers

JediFragger · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:40

Zeed said:
OI dont break their Bubble.. They forgot it was 100% what AMD said when Vega Frontier came out. DONT WORRY GUYSSSS It's not gaming card just wait for proper Gaming drivers

Don't get me wrong I'm hoping there's more to come, but I think they're wringing as much as possible out of a 60CU Vega tbh.

Zeed · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:42

JediFragger said:
Don't get me wrong I'm hoping there's more to come, but I think tyhey're wringing as much as possible out of a 60CU Vega tbh.

I'm 95% sure there is no overclocking headroom like in Fury X.

LEt's wright it again Vega VII is fantastic card at fantastic price.... around September 2017 id Bite one like hungry dog bites ham

Gerard · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:47

Zeed said:
OI dont break their Bubble..

Zeed said:
LEt's wright it again Vega VII is fantastic card at fantastic price.... around September 2017 id Bite one like hungry dog bites ham

Umm....

Gerard · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:53

Launch vid.

opethdisciple · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:53

This has probably been mentioned already but my observation is that is has taken AMD on a smaller node to reach 1080ti/2080 levels.

Not great to be honest.

Speirs · 7 Feb 2019 at 22:58

I purchased the card today but according to their customer service guy I was 45 in line and now have to wait 2 weeks for their next batch.
Question is, do they take the money out of your account now or when it is back in stock again and being processed?
My bank account says the money is going out and on my Orders page I have got 'Order received - not yet shipped'.
I have gone for DPD Saturday delivery?

oweneades · 7 Feb 2019 at 23:02

Normally OCUK take pre-orders immediately (or at least they used to in the past).

4K8KW10 · 7 Feb 2019 at 23:02

opethdisciple said:
This has probably been mentioned already but my observation is that is has taken AMD on a smaller node to reach 1080ti/2080 levels.

Not great to be honest.

2080 has more transistors in its die. A smaller node itself doesn't mean anything - what you compare is die sizes and quantity transistors.

Martini1991 · 7 Feb 2019 at 23:19

4K8KW10 said:
2080 has more transistors in its die. A smaller node itself doesn't mean anything - what you compare is die sizes and quantity transistors.

This makes it worse.

MyBrainz · 7 Feb 2019 at 23:21

nashathedog said:
If it'd had a bigger heatsink the fans wouldn't of had to speed up so much which is a shame as it seem like they wanted to keep it at only 2 slots thick,
I'm not sure why they thought that was a requirement.

I thought that heatsink was weird when Steve at GM did the teardown, the fans sunk into where the heatsink should be. Might be a design flaw and makes me wonder if they did enough testing on it. My Red Dragon Vega 56 is a 2 slot with a good chunky heatsink & 3 fans, how did they end up with this thing? Will have to see how it pans out in the next few weeks.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 7 Feb 2019 at 23:24

Another meh graphics card. I will try and get a review thread up(unless someone has done so already).

wombooga · 7 Feb 2019 at 23:26

With the RTX failures and having just had an Asus Strix 1080ti fail on me (memory issues causing artefacts) I've just bought a Radeon VII. I've been using a friend's Vega for a couple of weeks and it's been a pleasant experience. If AMD fix the driver issues I think I'll enjoy this card.