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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **
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Nice professional signage there, printed sheets of folded A4?? Wow. 
Its a fail due to the fact that Gameworks and Nvidia gimping old cards are 2 different things, for starters hes comparing charts from launch Fallout 4 to 1.3 Beta drivers which if you bothered to look at the actual 1.3 release driver benchmarks you would find that cards from both vendors showed an improvement opposite to what the graphs in the video show.
Gameworks is just optional eye candy with a performance hit if enabled if people are not happy with the performance hit they can simply turn it off its purely optional and quite simple to comprehend, the fact that he also used Batman Arkham Knight as an example of his ignorance even with Gameworks effects disabled the game still ran like a steaming pile of crap nothing to do with Gameworks. If he knew anything about game software development and optimisation its not like games are designed around Gameworks. Also read post
#6432 he sums it up..
Outrageous these companies not releasing products until they are released.
The problem is we hit peak hype quite some time ago, and now it's turned to frustration. It's generally not good to frustrate and annoy your customers, because then they jump ship to a competitor who hasn't annoyed them. Look at the number of people that jumped ship to green when FE was released and RX was no where to be seen. Or the T-shirt reveal. Or the reddit AMA that told us little to nothing. Or the "Poor Volta" ads.
There's only so long you can keep your loyal customers on the hook before they are no longer loyal or your customers, and I think AMD is well past that point now. They need to put up or shut up, and I think if Vega is below par or expensive, there will be a lot of AMD love that turns to hate. You let your customers down too often, and they lose any brand loyalty.
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Possibly, after all as AMD have done with gddr5 for Polaris and HBM for Vega they may have a staggered release program with Navi and something else, I don't thimk we'll see anything near 40 Tflops though, That said it would be great if they found a way to make a threadripper type gpu.
I'm in the market for a GPU soon, and I know when Vega details are out so I'll wait til then to make a decision based on what the product actually is, not on some frankly slightly odd concept of loyalty to a multinational corporation.
Maybe I'm just getting too old for all this hype train business
To me it looks to be the opposite, the right monitor appears to be the Asus Designo this time. You can tell as the bezel is noticeably smaller on it compared to the ROG.
I'm in the market for a GPU soon, and I know when Vega details are out so I'll wait til then to make a decision based on what the product actually is, not on some frankly slightly odd concept of loyalty to a multinational corporation.
Maybe I'm just getting too old for all this hype train business
The problem is that even those that had no brand loyalty but were simply waiting to see which company delivered them an upgrade stopped waiting and bought green. Nvidia had products to sell, AMD had lots of promises that led to disappointment when nothing (not even any info) was delivered. If you were an agnostic customer and needed a mid-high end card, the best AMD could offer was 480/580, while Nvidia had 1080/ti. You can't sell what you don't have.
AMD better make sure that the RX is gimped in professional workloads, or they will be in for a whole lot of pain lol ! Coz now every reviewer and their dog will be testing the RX in productivity benches.
I didn't. nVidia's current high end offerings aren't good value, I'm waiting to see what competition Vega offers.
I'm not particularly interested in raw numbers, more value. 1080ti performance at a sensible price? I'm interested...if not....well I'm not paying 700 EUR for a GPU so I guess I'm waiting a little longer
I didn't. nVidia's current high end offerings aren't good value, I'm waiting to see what competition Vega offers.
I'm not particularly interested in raw numbers, more value. 1080ti performance at a sensible price? I'm interested...if not....well I'm not paying 700 EUR for a GPU so I guess I'm waiting a little longer
RX Vega will probably be between 1080 and 1080Ti performance. It won't beat a Ti...apart from the price of it.
Nothing official yet, but some sort of announcement is due end of the month.
The long term won't be a Threadripper type GPU in terms of monolithic packages on a substrate communicating but more like effectively dissecting the GPU into blocks of sub-systems and controllers in seperate packages using recent advances in substrate technology to be able to communicate fast enough between them to make it work with highly specialised and dedicated interconnects.
DRAM is about due a shrink to 1x nodes as well which should see a huge jump in capibilities.
It would be rather funny if the vega cards they were using were actually FE cards but using RX drivers that are actually game optimised.
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