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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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Bought RX 480 beginning of March to wait for Vega. Jump shipped late April to GTX 1080 before the GPU inflation that occurred afterwards. 3 months later now and the end of H1 seems a long time ago.

In the mean time 1440p gaming has been awesome.
 
Dianbobo said:
Annoyingly you are probably right there
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I wanna know if there is truth to the "industry sources" who claim there is basically a couple of 10s of thousands of units from risk production and volume production won't be hitting the market in full until over 3 months from now.
 
Why ramp up Vega production when you can sell 570/580 cards by the thousands instead?

Is that perhaps the tact AMD is taking? Make hay while the sun shines.
 
r7slayer said:
Either way i'm getting fed up of lazy developers and the bias in this gaming industry which is just leaving us and leading us into stagnation. Crappy ports and crappy DX12 patches. Unfinished games and you tend to need to buy DLC or even expansions to get the full experience. Don't do demo's anymore to see how the game runs etc to try before you buy. Origin do that 1 hour thing which is good but thats not devs. Not touching DX12 because it works better on AMD hardware even though if done right can boost nvidia hardware.
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Not touching DX12 is unlikely to do with favouring nvidia, its more likely that DX12 is a very limited market, DX12 is windows 10 platform exclusive.

The best thing for consumers is a mass migration of developers to vulkan but for some reason people on this forum seem to like DX12.

If I was paying a developer to make a game I wouldnt have them waste time on DX12. Its a dead end technology. I would pay them to use an API that will support the largest devices possible, so either DX9 or vulkan.

There is a reason only a few very large budget AAA games have even touched DX12.
 
HRL said:
Quoted from that article:

"Volta, our seventh-generation GPU architecture, provides a 5x improvement in peak teraflops over its predecessor Pascal, and 15x over the Maxwell architecture, launched just two years ago. This performance surpasses by 4x the improvements that Moore’s law would have predicted."

That's pretty nuts TBF. Doesn't bode well for AMD.
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So they reckon pascal is 10 times better than maxwell in peak performance in terflops? Wtf where??? Of they said 2 times maybe.
 
r7slayer said:
So they reckon pascal is 10 times better than maxwell in peak performance in terflops? Wtf where??? Of they said 2 times maybe.
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The article is about Deap Learning and the usable Teraflops there. It'S been 7 Gflops FP32 with Maxwell, 21 Gflops FP16 with Pascal and now 120 Gflops Tensor with Volta. For Deap Learning this is really such a jump. For us gamers it wont matter.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6py1ms/confirmed_south_african_wholesale_pricing_for/

South African distributor have ASUS RX Vega 64 8GB Air Cooled listed confirmed priced 14099 Rand and ASUS RX Vega 64 8GB Water cooled OC listed priced 15999 Rand.

So...

ASUS RX Vega 64 8GB Air Cooled: 14099 Rand = $1083 = £828 exc VAT = £993 inc VAT
ASUS RX Vega 64 8GB Water cooled OC: 15999 Rand = $1229 = £940 exc VAT = £1128 inc VAT

ASUS branded RX Vega 64 seemed really very expensive, other brands like Sapphire and others should be £100 cheaper than ASUS.
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Prices are always higher in South Africa and those prices are pretty spot on with the GTX 1080 Ti. The GTX 1080 is around 12000 rand.
 
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