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RX VEGA - Too shine will need Dev Support

shankly1985

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I knew they is a lot of you sick to death of hearing AMD will get better over time bah bah Fine Wine Bah Bah
I understand this RX Vega is very Late and looking like around $100 priced too high over each package.

But i'll be buying RX VEGA :p I stand by AMD approach to PC gaming and Open Source and for that reason I will take the gamble that RX Vega will get better the more gaming start using the GPU.. If I can get the same amount of time I have had with my R9 290 Gaming at 1440p I be very happy "Still to this day I shocked how well it performs in recent titles"

Anyways couple things I have been catching up on is RX VEGA feature set will benefit most from devs wanting to use the GPU more effectively - Rapid Packed Math FP16 and HBCC could very well be RX Vega hidden performance! But we here again if Devs will use it? If they don't well......

For Cry 5 and Wolfenstein 2 Both going to use FP16 on RX Vega
So is VEGA truly depending on Devs to get the best out of the GPU otherwise you really just have an overclocked FuryX with the features disabled?
AMD released A Game Profiler with Driver 17.7.2 to give the game developers direct access to the full GPU so hopefully these Features that require dev teams to use will be taken onboard and not forgotten about Lol

 
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I'm tempted to get one too, probably the liquid cooled version (really liked that about the Fury X, now I'm sold on it).
Then I can compare it to my 1080Ti and Fury X (crossfire) setups.

Also, partly because I bought a Freesync monitor (I didn't know at the time AMD were going to stop producing high end GPUs)
 
Yeah, it really does seem people were ignoring the Vega hardware thats under the hood along with the gpu profiling AMD have, if anything AMD have built a tool that lets them have a i/o feature they can probably add to improve vegas performance, we have seen what Vulcan can do under AMD hardware and imo theres still more to be had, its not a far fetched thing, mean Fury X is better then a Nvidia 1070 which is better then a 980ti which was better then the Fury X outside of Vulcan.
 
Raelgun said:
Yeah, it really does seem people were ignoring the Vega hardware thats under the hood along with the gpu profiling AMD have, if anything AMD have built a tool that lets them have a i/o feature they can probably add to improve vegas performance, we have seen what Vulcan can do under AMD hardware and imo theres still more to be had, its not a far fetched thing, mean Fury X is better then a Nvidia 1070 which is better then a 980ti which was better then the Fury X outside of Vulcan.
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But like always, it doesn't really matter, because technology moves too quickly. In ~8-9 months time, Volta will be out and make Vega old, obsolete and irrelevant, regardless of how many special features that Devs can unlock.

I want performance i can use right now, because then i will just sell up and get something from the next generation when it comes out (like most enthusiasts) .

AMD need to focus on getting a product out that takes on the competition ( and ideally beats it) at release.
 
Armadillo said:
Meh will be same as always. If AMD want devs to use their features, then AMD need to be the ones with 70% market share (or whatever it was).
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Looking at NEW games I would say they are, looking between the RX 480/580 vs Nvidia 1060 at least, the one thing Nvidia did was make a tool that was meant to make production in games easier which is where the library for gameworks was for, however its performance is terrible. GPU profiling is out now if its a tool designed to allow PC porting easier for the hardware, in fairness I can see this being used for the consoles as well if not already.
 
Day 1 performance and support will be important for Vega, what it does in a couple of years does not matter as we will be looking forward to replacing our old Volta cards with something new from NVidia.
 
Only reason why I'm even considering an RX Vega is the insane markup of G-Sync displays. Don't really need GTX 1080 ti performance for a smooth experience using Freesync on ultrawide resolutions. Even if it isn't a huge upgrade over my GTX 980 Ti (watercooled and overclocked), the newer HDR g-sync/freesync displays are going to require DP 1.3<.
 
I'm getting a amd because my nvidia has died and I cannot wait for Volta. I was hoping amd to have more power really. But on the plus side my gpu died at a good time, price I think is fair enough compared to nvidia now and I think these vegas look so much better than all the nvidia.
 
I'm not too sure now.

If I do it'll be either water cooled or a Tri-x from Sapphire as the Fury Tri-x was a great card that I regret selling now.
 
I just want a 1070 competitor for the same price or lower. I don't care that it's late.

Not giving up my freesync ultrawide.

If I can get that then I am buying one.
 
This is available Aug 14th, is that to preorder or purchase?

I am after the 64air cooled gpu.

I would Like the liquid cooled gpu but when I upgrade my 2nd computer hasn't got liquid cooling. Unless I was able to air cool it later in its life?
 
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