Well the idea there is that FE was rushed out the door to meet the 1H 2017 target for investors, and the drivers aren't fully finished.
But they will be fully finished and launched alongside the RX cards.
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Well the idea there is that FE was rushed out the door to meet the 1H 2017 target for investors, and the drivers aren't fully finished.
But they will be fully finished and launched alongside the RX cards.
It is feasible that the RX vega 64 could be priced really high
If they can't gimp the arch on the compute side of things, it would be just as fast as the FE, so they would have to price it at FE minus the price that 8gb of HMB2 is psychologically worth
If they priced it at the same price as the 1080 they wouldn't sell any FE cards (with them not having certified drivers nor ECC VRAM), pros would just buy 2 RX gpus at the same price as an FE (coz I would imagine that in a lot of pro workloads the VRAM adds up) meaning less profit for AMD. That could explain why they had to readjust the FE launch price as well (from 1200 to 1000).
But with vega 56 they can price it more or less as they want (1080 price) as there isn't a 56 in the FE segment.
If they can't gimp the arch on the compute side of things, it would be just as fast as the FE, so they would have to price it at FE minus the price that 8gb of HMB2 is psychologically worth
If they priced it at the same price as the 1080 they wouldn't sell any FE cards (with them not having certified drivers nor ECC VRAM), pros would just buy 2 RX gpus at the same price as an FE (coz I would imagine that in a lot of pro workloads the VRAM adds up) meaning less profit for AMD. That could explain why they had to readjust the FE launch price as well (from 1200 to 1000).
But with vega 56 they can price it more or less as they want (1080 price) as there isn't a 56 in the FE segment.
And will give the 3% performance difference as quoted by AIB.
The drivers have been under development for over 18 months, so the 1 month form FE to RX launch can't be expected to do anything beyond the typical few percent you see.
If AMD were really only 1 month away form unlocking massive performance increases then they would have simply done a paper launch with the FE cards. That would have satisfied investors and not lead to a PR disaster.
Its just getting better this thread ..i don't care for vega when we have banter/jokes like this
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All we are going to get come the 30th is an event where they confirm RX Vega with..... coming soon.
What about the 3Dmark scores by AMD guy?
Well i would not be surprised if something is up with win 10.. i mean just look at the havoc the creators update has done to driver support. I might want to try win 7 again.
I think it's actually the 31st our time? I saw 04:30 German time being mentioned.
I still jump between the two.
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I've been back on Nvidia for a month or two but, before that I had a 290x and then a Fury pro. Over the last 18 month's or more AMD's driver team had been doing an excellent job optimising for my Fury Tri-x, There was very few issues and I'm looking forward to moving back to AMD and what I've become comfortable with. The supports been top notch for quite a while.
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Well Siggraph is the day I decide on what I get.
AMD or NVIDIA.
Already got my Vega replacement kit ready to order.
FE is a placeholder Vega
I'm changing jobs so don't need a Threadripper or Skylake X anymore for production work, so decided shove that into a fancier monitor for gaming and other projects.
I'd look for a Freesync monitor with LFC support if I was you.
English isn't your first language, so I don't think you understood the article properly. It's not saying the final version of drivers for the RX Vega will bring 3% more performance, it's saying that the 17.7.2 drivers will only bring 3% performance increase to FE Vega.
And this was expected because didn't AMD say before this release that no performance improvements were coming for Vega with the 17.7.2 drivers.
Edit: in fact the whole article is about the 17.7.2 driver. The driver is a release of new features and improvements not a performance driver. The driver has nothing to do with Vega at all.
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No such thing at large Ultrawide since there are no reputable 75Hz + ones. Unless I buy a Korean funky one off the bay.
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At 38" no but there is at 34", If it was me I'd try and hang on for the Freesync2 models which all have LFC along with HDR but I'm not sure how far away they are, LFC's definetly the most important Freesync feature, especially on high res models where you may often see frame dips..
This will help you check which monitor models have LFC and which don't, scroll to the bottom and choose the monitors option then there's 4 pages of Freesync model's to peruse stat's on.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/freesync
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Also as mentioned, it all depends on what AMD delivers this weekend. I already have a 1440p 144hz Freesync, but if the GPU disappoints I'm moving to green in total again.
Can't be ***** sitting on a sub par monitor and GPU; and honestly I've waited long enough. Since Polaris rumors. :|
Yeah I feel totally bummed not buying a G-Sync monitor, I know the premium is £100-£200 but it would be worth it considering I know how Freesync is like when I had my old R9 290.
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