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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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Shaz12 said:
What was the point of showing the Cube if it was never meant to be sold? This is the most baffling event AMD is having today.
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Especially when Linus said that it will be on the special cards. And indeed the weirdest launch of AMD card ever -_-
 
Erik13 said:
I will actually be suprised if Raja continues to be the head of Rtg after this disastrous Vega 'non' release
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Hopefully he gets his chance with Navi, as it's the first one designed entirely under him and if that's a flop then remove him. We still don't know for sure how much of a performer Vega will be in RX guise.
 
I'm also struggling to see the point of these "limited edition" cards, besides the aluminium shroud are they just slightly better binned chips or something? As i said earlier in this thread its strange for amd to release a limited edition version as its normally third parties that go down that route, not the actual gpu designer. :confused:
 
Roob65 said:
did they not do that with the rx580 - cherry picked silicon as limited edition?
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I think that was powercolor or something did that, the way they're talking about these vega cards its as if they're going to be selling a limited edition themselves.
 
Gerard said:
I'm also struggling to see the point of these "limited edition" cards, besides the aluminium shroud are they just slightly better binned chips or something? As i said earlier in this thread its strange for amd to release a limited edition version as its normally third parties that go down that route, not the actual gpu designer. :confused:
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Extra revenue pure and simple. They've seen what Nvidia have done with the Titan brand and they clearly covet it.
 
Gerard said:
I'm also struggling to see the point of these "limited edition" cards, besides the aluminium shroud are they just slightly better binned chips or something? As i said earlier in this thread its strange for amd to release a limited edition version as its normally third parties that go down that route, not the actual gpu designer. :confused:
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Could have something to do with them saying that Vega would only be released in limited quantity at launch, maybe the limited edition will be the only version available and it's a way for them to make a limited launch "more interesting" . I dont' believe it will be better binned or anything, just an early adopter gimmick.
 
Aren't Founders Edition cards more as well for no reason?

Maybe this is AMDs equivalent. So only Limited Edition cards will initially be available.
 
nashathedog said:
AMD no longer use RAPTR, Instead you can set up games globally or individually in the Wattman software, I'm not entirely sure if it has an auto settings option game by game and can't check at the moment but overall it is much better without RAPTR.
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Its not the same thing.. Radeon settings does not alter game settings only driver profiles for that game. Raptr as i said was an AMD partner but clearly isnt anymore but it might still have the functionality it used to have which was to set game settings based on your hardware.
 
Gerard said:
I'm also struggling to see the point of these "limited edition" cards, besides the aluminium shroud are they just slightly better binned chips or something? As i said earlier in this thread its strange for amd to release a limited edition version as its normally third parties that go down that route, not the actual gpu designer. :confused:
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probably to offer the vega64 a good cooling and quality solution, since AIBs will only be allowed to make Vega56, so the 64 version will be stuck with Radeon reference cooler, basicaly the same as Fury and Fuy X.
 
Gerard said:
Lol due to the (as they say) "high quality thermal (cooler for anyone outside planet nvidia) and expensive low profile board components".
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The real reason is that the AIBs were not happy that there were cheap reference cards to compete with that made it hard for them to have an attractive alternative at the budget end. To some.Nvodia being a budget competitor Nvidia raised the price of the reference card to allow AIBs more space to undercut.

A second reason was it get very expenses for OEMs to have to switch cards through the product lifecycle,.so they wanted a reference card that would be sold for the entire existence of the GPU.

The Founders edition solves all these problems, but doesn't add anything for the user except increased costs of reference cards. Nvidia supposedly instead marketed the FE cards as a more premium/less budget offering to justify the price but nothing was particularly special about them.




I expect with Volta the FE cards will be priced the same as the budget AIB cards
 
Updated the OP with some new info, will add more tomorrow once we hopefully get a lot more official information :)
 
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