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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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nashathedog said:
Not really, Raja said that RX Vega will be faster for gaming and have some gaming tweaks the FE doesn't
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He needs to cover himself a bit, as he knows the FE will be benchmarked to death once they're released. Their isn't going to be much in it though, so at least we'll have more of a solid idea of performance generally.
 
r7slayer said:
Wouldn't surprise me if the RX Vega flagship is release slightly after other skus too.
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After such a long wait I hope not.


JediFragger said:
He needs to cover himself a bit, as he knows the FE will be benchmarked to death once they're released. Their isn't going to be much in it though, so at least we'll have more of a solid idea of performance generally.
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I don't think there'll be anything in it either, Possibly faster stock clocks for RX Vega.
 
nashathedog said:
Not really, Raja said that RX Vega will be faster for gaming and have some gaming tweaks the FE doesn't
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JediFragger said:
He needs to cover himself a bit, as he knows the FE will be benchmarked to death once they're released. Their isn't going to be much in it though, so at least we'll have more of a solid idea of performance generally.
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The #1 'tweak' is obviously higher clocks. I recon an overclocked FE card will bench pretty close to the gaming version, with maybe an extra 5% left in further driver optimisations.

Come to think of it, I wonder if this is also a bit of tactic from AMD: release the FE cards in the wild with 'beta' drivers, let the press bench them and point out any problems / outliers, fix those and release RX Vega with press-kit drivers that address any major issues.
 
nashathedog said:
I don't think there'll be anything in it either, Possibly faster stock clocks for RX Vega.
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akarypid said:
The #1 'tweak' is obviously higher clocks. I recon an overclocked FE card will bench pretty close to the gaming version, with maybe an extra 5% left in further driver optimisations.

Come to think of it, I wonder if this is also a bit of tactic from AMD: release the FE cards in the wild with 'beta' drivers, let the press bench them and point out any problems / outliers, fix those and release RX Vega with press-kit drivers that address any major issues.
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The first thing that comes to mind is gaming optimized drivers, but Raja has stated the FE will be able to use the Radeon Gaming drivers as well.
So there's a chance the FE will only launch with Professional drivers at first.

Then the RX gaming card comes out with slightly high base clocks, and possibly water cooling; along with the gaming specific drivers.

Making it looks up to 10% faster on launch day reviews compared to the Frontier Edition ones.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Directly from Raja from the reddit AMA.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6bklro/we_are_radeon_technologies_group_at_amd_and_were/

The Frontier Edition was designed for a variety of use-cases like Machine Learning, real-time visualization, and game design. Can you play games on Frontier Edition? Yes, absolutely. It supports the RX driver and will deliver smooth 4K gaming. But because it is optimized for professional use cases (and priced accordingly), if gaming is your primary reason for buying a GPU, I’d suggest waiting just a little while longer for the lower-priced, gaming-optimized Radeon RX Vega
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Looks like it can use the Gaming drivers, and the Pro ones.
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Thanks for that. I hadn't seen the multiple driver usage quote.

The Titan only uses the gaming series drivers though so it isn't really directly comparable to the FE.
 
The official naming of the cards hasn't helped. We originally talked about Big Vega and Little Vega or Vega 10 & 11. Now the Frontier Edition Pro card is in the mix with the RX series.
 
akarypid said:
The #1 'tweak' is obviously higher clocks. I recon an overclocked FE card will bench pretty close to the gaming version, with maybe an extra 5% left in further driver optimisations.

Come to think of it, I wonder if this is also a bit of tactic from AMD: release the FE cards in the wild with 'beta' drivers, let the press bench them and point out any problems / outliers, fix those and release RX Vega with press-kit drivers that address any major issues.
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I can't imagine AMD would release a half baked product with sub par performance for public testing and then rely on journos to point out the bugs for them. I mean imagine all the negative press....

...actually I suspect your right!
 
Kaapstad said:
I bet I won't be in the first wave of buyers, I will wait for stock and prices to settle down first.

I can wait as I have a couple of crappy old cards to keep me going.:)
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Ye my plan is preirder vega in 1st minute. Sell ti im done for 18 months with upgrades :)
 
hyperseven said:
What games are you playing that cost that much?
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Hi, Just check out places like the Windows store, Uplay and Origin. Yes it included the season pass but nowadays that's where a lot of the content is,

Examples:
Gears of War 4 Ultimate edition £79.99
Halo Wars 2 Ultimate edition £64.99 standard edition £49.74
Resident Evil 7 Deluxe £69.99
Forza Horizon 3 ultimate edition £79.99
Battlefront 2 deluxe £69.99 standard £54.99
ME Andromeda deluxe £54.99 standard £49.99
BF1 Ultimate £104.98 Deluxe £64.99 Standard £49.99
Far cry 5 gold edition £74.99
 
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