Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[five8five]

Didn't he just mean the driver package as a whole ?... Meaning the most recent Vega drivers ?

No, he said the drivers were very recent. Also said the drivers are the same for Pro or gaming. The difference is the interface.

 

[WeSbO]

At least his mic isn't picking up any fan noise lol...

 

[N19h7m4r3]

At least his mic isn't picking up any fan noise lol...

I noticed that as well, so there's that.

 

[D.P.]

pcper said AMD confirmed the drivers are recent, not old ones.

Yep.

 

[WeSbO]

No, he said the drivers were very recent.

Yes meaning the most recent Vega drivers (they are in a different section on the AMD website)

 

[harney]

Seems a little weird this launch for FE card

 

[Martini1991]

This reminds me of that old steam of that old Bulldozer stream back in the day.

Everyone's hyped and the results were are sucky.

 

[nashathedog]

PC per are doing live benchmarking of the FE at i think 10:30 our time

https://www.pcper.com/live/

https://twitter.com/ryanshrout/status/880511248584118272

Yay, That's good news.

At least we can rule out user error and poor PC components.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

On AT forums somewhat spotted this comment:

"Expect no performance delta between Gaming and Pro mode. Shipping driver is current, but is not comparable to RX Vega driver."
PCPer Ryan quoting AMD

Edit!!

During the Unigine run the clockspeed was settling at around 1440MHZ.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

Oh god in Unigine Heaven it's losing to the GTX 1080?

On AT forums somewhat spotted this comment:



Edit!!

During the Unigine run the clockspeed was settling at around 1440MHZ.

Interesting, and we didn't hear the fan spin up, nor did he.

 

[harney]

On AT forums somewhat spotted this comment:



Edit!!

During the Unigine run the clockspeed was settling at around 1440MHZ.

Clocks seem to be all over the place

 

[Gerard]

Its roughly 1080 performance when it needs to be in 1080ti territory, just hope the RX can be competitive somehow, otherwise amd's spiel of "gamers should wait for RX Vega" was pointless.

 

[Martini1991]

Wonder if it's throttling because the fan doesn't kick up.
Incidentally a 290X left default does that same thing.

 

[five8five]

Yes meaning the most recent Vega drivers (they are in a different section on the AMD website)

He specifically said they are not "old" drivers as per the internet rumour. They have a lot of optimisations.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

He specifically said they are not "old" drivers as per the internet rumour. They have a lot of optimisations.

"Expect no performance delta between Gaming and Pro mode. Shipping driver is current, but is not comparable to RX Vega driver."
PCPer Ryan quoting AMD

 

[Nexus18]

Hmm, PCPer getting lower 3DMark results that the chap from yesterday lol

He's getting lower scores than the disqus/reddit guy...

But but but but.....

It's their setup I tell you!

No wait....

It's because they don't know what they are doing!

Oh no emmm wait.....

Lets just wait for the "pros" to review it

 

[N19h7m4r3]

Lets just wait for the "pros" to review it

At least we have "official" reputable tests now.

Interesting AMD told Ryan that the FE Driver cannot be compared to the RX Vega one. So what's the performance delta between them! We need more jiggawats and info.

 

[JediFragger]

This is ridiculous. RTG need to seriously learn from doing this ****.

 

[D.P.]

PCPer confirmed its using the best drivers that AMD have available, they called up AMD to confirm.

 

[Martini1991]

AMD knew PCPER were doing this.