Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

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Vega really is a fail if that is it's performance

I really do like the look of the liquid edition, but such a crazy price with no performance to back it up.

 

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Are you sure it's not a matter of you like it because it's made by nVidia?

This made me lol

I think Gregster genuinely likes it because it is in Batman games as far as I know, and he loves Batman

 

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Now that the final drivers are with reviewers, any news/confirmation on the allegedly 70-100MH/s hash rate on RX Vega?

 

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The point is tho, that existing games do not tap in to Vega's hardware features.

And by the time they do, Volta and even probably Navi will be out.

 

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OP updated

 

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Time to hide the wallet!

You know you want that water cooled one. One of the looking graphics cards I have ever seen

 

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Must Resist!

Why resist when you can have a shiny new toy? Buy it and let the joy flow through you!

 

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The one that matches my monitor's variable refresh rate method

Vega then

 

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I can see it already, in the next 72 hours members market will be flooded with 1080 and 1080Ti's from people wanting to upgrade.

 

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How is that an upgrade when it's literally worse performance? It's way worse than my 1080ti, by a considerable - 30%~ - margin!

Knew I should have put a or /s at the end. lol. It was clearly a joke

 

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Quite possibly the most boring GPU design ever. I'm snoring. ZzzzZz

Yeah, the limited edition and liquid editions look much better.

 

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(leaked apparently)

ive just read that the Vega 64 is the same performance as a 1080 and the Vega 56 is the same as a 1070

This has been known for a few weeks now. Nothing new then

 

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I may have misread this, but the issue is that they demonstrated how TIM spreads on the TR IHS using the dummy TR chip AMD sent lots of reviewers. How exactly does that break NDA? The size of the IHS has been common knowledge for months and not under NDA, they could have done the video using a Xmm by Ymm piece of card instead of the fake TR and it would have made no difference.

AMD gone full retard.

They should have just given them a warning as what he did does not sound like a big deal. Say if he broke NDA and released a review early, then I would understand, but for how TIM spreads on TR?

I can forgive marketing blunders, huge delay, uninspiring performance at launch, even the power consumption.

But then they go and ask that price?
I feared we would see repeat of Fiji launch failure. No, this time it is even worse.

Exactly.

What are AMD smoking these days I don't know. Maybe AMDMatt can tell us, must be some strong stuff

 

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Can't you just buy a "RX Vega 64 Reference Design" then stick a 3rd party AIO on it?

You can, but you may lose warranty and it will probably look butt ugly relative to the one AMD are making.

I am not happy with performance or even price for performance from AMD with Vega, but I do really like the liquid cooled one. I think it looks very nice. As long as Gibbo does not try bend us over too hard on price, I may get one.

The good thing about it is, it will be faster than the 295x2 I had, run using much less power and be a lot less noisy. Oh and no need to wait for silly crossfire profiles

 

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Who is going to buy this at £600-700 rather than a 1080ti?

If it performs like a 1080.

I just might. Really like how it looks. Already got a FreeSync monitor also.

 

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BTW,did anyone see the AMD response to the Nvidia tweet:

https://twitter.com/AMDRyzen/status/895751260695035908?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http://www.tweaktown.com/news/58728/nvidia-welcome-back-amd-threadripper-launch/index.html



Its a high five gif!!

Just catching up with this thread. LOL! Too funny.

 

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Its really getting on my **** to say the least, almost every launch we have some retailer\etailer convenient situation that allows them to start cranking on the price. Oh stock is low so lets plays the "supply and demand card", oh the pound dropped .25 of a point against the dollar, oh brexit is affecting prices, the guy on the rickshaw taking the cards to the boat in china is requesting a wage increase so that has to also be taken into consideration. Almost every launch without fail there always something to let retailers ratchet the price and its seriously getting old.

Well said +1

 

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Reminds me of my old 295x2.

Same here man, same here... But this looks better

Oooh shiny!

Owwwwww yeaaaa!

Neither AMD nor Nvidia have much control over the prices in the UK. They set their price in dollars. By the time the cards get to the UK, there is shipping, VAT and gouging added. And if they know the cards are going to be popular or limited in anyway, the price gouging is worse.

If it's true and these cards are great for mining, retailers will know this and price accordingly.

Would appreciate if someone could enlighten me.

These cards presumably are made in Taiwan/China, are they all shipped to USA then after to the UK? If they are shipped directly from where they are produced, why is there an extra so called "shipping" charge for the UK as that price should be included in the MSRP?

 

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Raja talks about future changed towards multi core cpus and talks about GPUs will move towards something similar like this. If you look at Navi in the roadmap it shows scalability and next gen memory. Raja also talks about how you can use more smaller GPU dies instead of just using one monolithic die similar to what nvidia have done with V100.

I don't see why they cannot do this with navi and navi is what Raja has worked on from the beginning rather than vega where it was already at some stage being brought into life. (probably the fury X lol)

Watch from 6:51 to 7:25 cracked me up. Yes Raja, we was surprised, it was 1060 performance at 1080 power consumption. Too funny

They are lucky for miners gobbling them all up

I am guessing it's due to the amount of cards shipped, not where it's shipped from/to.

Not sure that would make such a big difference to be honest. Also I wonder how they ship these things, by air, by boat?

Before someone says that there is different, I know, but I sometimes I buy things that come from China in a week or two that would cost more here just for shipping only, let alone the product

 

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6t6avy/vega_56_3dmark_benchmark/

Vega 56 about as fast as GTX 1070 OC.

Yeah, nothing special. But at least it will be priced much better than the 64 and liquid edition and will give Freesync users an upgrade path.

It just sucks that AMD are giving us what has been available for 16 months by the time Vega 56 comes out for the same price. Not to mention it is not as power efficient. Being honest with one's self, that is just so disappointing. They should have at least tried to improve price for performance