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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

On or off the hype train?

  • (off) Train has derailed

    Votes: 207 39.2%

  • (on) Overcrowding, standing room only

    Votes: 100 18.9%

  • (never ever got on) Chinese escalator

    Votes: 221 41.9%
  • Total voters
    528
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harney said:
The other thing we where all spamming in the chat @ pcper stream was try 100% fan ryan was like no don't be silly at 1st ...but he did it in the end and the results where a shock ...the power graphs stabled out with fans on full no spikes in power going up and down ....
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I am kind of thinking since this was a rushed launch,whether a consequence of the drivers not being really in a good state,is whether some aspects of the power saving systems used by the card won't be working properly.
 
D.P. said:
The whole tiled rendering conspriacy is a bit weak here. There is absolutely no proof that the utility used to check TBR is actually going to pick up on it with all hardware. If vega supports TBR it will definitely support IMR and the driver will be able to select between modes based on the rendering code. At worse the driver might have manual overrides and wasn't enabled for that utility, but that doesn't mean it wasn't enabled for the actual games. Supporting TBR in the drivers would be pretty fundamental so if somehow this was broken in Vega FE, we go back to the same question of why this would magically get fixed in the next month when AMD have had 12-18mmonths or longer to work on drivers. Or if it is a hardware issue fixed in a later revision, then why release the dysfunctional FE at all and let the world see abysmal benchmarks for a month.
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Probably because CorporateHQ is fragmented and out of touch as many often are. Their stoic silence shows they clearly didn't consider it in any way potentially problematic to release their brand new GPU arch without the typical launch and marketing material that usually accompanies a consumer launch.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It's basically the AMD Titan Founders Edition,a halo prosumer card which is made for gaming and a bit overspecced in other areas for people on a budget,who can't afford proper pro cards(probably mostly one man bands I expect) to do other stuff,and also to add "value" to the brand.
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Wrong way around. For the Titan cards, they are primarily gaming cards, that's their main function, but they have the power to do other stuff. Whereas for the Vega FE it's a card focused for pro work which you can game on. And AMD have made that very clear, if you want to primarily game then wait for RX Vega.
 
harney said:
The other thing we where all spamming in the chat @ pcper stream was try 100% fan ryan was like no don't be silly at 1st ...but he did it in the end and the results where a shock ...the power graphs stabled out with fans on full no spikes in power going up and down ....
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What are AMD doing setting it so low by default. I know noise is a big thing but they said they could hardly hear the fan.
 
It seems to me that there's obviously no single person at AMD with responsibility for Vega PR. There is no one who has the job of taking responsibility and dealing with things like this when the PR message goes off point. There isn't anyone at AMD who is looking at all this and saying "it's my job to deal with this before it gets out of control". The biggest GPU launch for AMD in three years starts rolling, and there's no one from AMD at the wheel to drive it in the right direction.
 
Rroff said:
At this point if they have something great to launch there is no reason not to be talking about it - there is nothing to be gained by not showing their hand at this point.
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Yip, if they are launching RX in 4 weeks the cards are in production and drivers are in final release debugging testing. They might as well do a paper launch next week and send cards out to reviewers.
 
Steampunk said:
It seems to me that there's obviously no single person at AMD with responsibility for Vega PR. There is no one who has the job of taking responsibility and dealing with things like this when the PR message goes off point. There isn't anyone at AMD who is looking at all this and saying "it's my job to deal with this before it gets out of control". The biggest GPU launch for AMD in three years starts rolling, and there's no one from AMD at the wheel to drive it in the right direction.
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I think they expected it to slip out into the wild of its niche market habitat quietly without drawing much attention.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Look forward to AMD releasing something, if only to stop all the boring old lady' moaning type posts, that always happen around an AMD launch.

My god it's boring in here atm. We need actual hardware and real user experience plz. Until then just gonna be more people getting

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This exactly!! well done Boom :)
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
I dunno man his testing is all over the place. For Ryzen he refused to test it along side Broadwell-E and mostly just ran games test compared. Stating content creation along with streaming is pointless.

Then comes Skylake X and suddenly he tests all the parts he refused to test Ryzen on; and one upped it by running two streaming services at the same time. So the 7900X was ahead of the 1800X; but of course never tested the 7700K in those tests. Only declare Ryzen isn't good for it lol, after every other reviewer says the opposite.
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Ive had my own fair share of WTF moments when watching GN videos.. So much in fact that I have unsubbed because I don't find him/them reliable/consistent enough. The thing that tipped it for me was when he called the ryzen 7 8 core a core i5 equivalent.
 
Here comes the triggering waves!
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Phixsator said:
Ive had my own fair share of WTF moments when watching GN videos.. So much in fact that I have unsubbed because I don't find him/them reliable/consistent enough. The thing that tipped it for me was when he called the ryzen 7 8 core a core i5 equivalent.
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I get ya, some of his testing was very odd at times. I do like his GPU tear downs though; few places actually do that.
 
It is the mixed messages we are getting they should have done better and had a disclaimer at the start of every review saying what this card is good for so people looking at the reviews know for certain.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
I get ya, some of his testing was very odd at times. I do like his GPU tear downs though; few places actually do that.
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The teardowns is great but that's the thing.. he is not the one doing those. It is that overclocker guy(name escapes me right now). They are just hosted on GN.
 
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