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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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Martini1991 said:
What am I meant to do
I need more performance than a 290x but I can't find a reasonable upgrade.

This is ludicrous.
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I think the Vega 56 will be decent upgrade for you. It's going to be cheaper than the 1070. With the mining craze at the moment, you will still get pretty good money for 290x.

Combine the Vega 56 with a decent freesync screen and you have a high quality gaming rig.
 
Scougar said:
If they had something to show off, they would be showing it. I don't normally have this attitude, I just think they don't have a competitive product.
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Yea they don't have it. If they had went down the gaming route they would have beefed up the shaders/rops and all the other things that make a good upgrade. They haven't and it does it's job well for deep learning which is what i think hey went for all along. This market is growing all the time and where the money will be made. We as gamers have taken a back seat in there priorities for now. It's probably in AMD's best interest and possibly in the long term ours as well.
 
Martini1991 said:
I do want to buy into Free-Sync too.
I'll just keep the 290x and whinge about it.

I can't stomach being 400 quid when my brother bought a 1070 msi for 370 last year.
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Scougar said:
If they had something to show off, they would be showing it. I don't normally have this attitude, I just think they don't have a competitive product.
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I think the Vega 56 might be OKish,especially since the TDP is much lower and the Vega 64 water cooled edition has 30% more FLOPs for a 64% TDP increase. Looking at the $399 RRP,that would equate to around £365 with VAT added.
 
The vega 56 looks like a 1070 for 1070 pricing (or older 1070 pricing) again I don't think I can stomach that.

Like I say. Last year you could get a 1070 for 370 easy
 
nashathedog said:
14 months ago AMD were shouting about how out of order the price of a 1080 was ans how you could buy 2x 480's for the price of one 1080.
Fastforward to today...... need i say more.

Well at least I haven't bought Prey or Wolf II yet so that's something.
I'll just have to see if Nvidia do enough to entice me to buy a faster gpu between now and the release.
I tried Dying Light with my 1060 last night and it was a mess, I'm not sure why though,
The fps seemed okay after reducing just about everything and the memory usage got no higher than just over 5gb's so I'm not sure why it was so bad,
I haven't played it for months but back then it ran as smooth as butter with my Fury pro.
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The 1080 at the time also occupied the price that the 1080Ti now occupies.
 
Martini1991 said:
The vega 56 looks like a 1070 for 1070 pricing (or older 1070 pricing) again I don't think I can stomach that.

Like I say. Last year you could get a 1070 for 370 easy
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One thing the RX Vega has over the 1070 is it is a proper dx12 card by the looks of it. It should last longer and hopefully with driver upgrades more performance will come. Ever since the 7970 AMD have shown this will probably be the case. I also think as time goes on games start to use more of AMD's tech so there cards see a boost.
 
Martini1991 said:
The vega 56 looks like a 1070 for 1070 pricing (or older 1070 pricing) again I don't think I can stomach that.

Like I say. Last year you could get a 1070 for 370 easy
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I bought my Asus Strix GTX 1070 for about $350 (maybe less) over a year ago. I sold it for around 300.... There is NO way I am going to be paying MORE for the same ******* performance that is over a year old. What on earth are they playing at.
 
Scougar said:
Beginning to think that just a die shrink for fiji with more memory would have been the better option whilst they worked on the true replacement (Navi).
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I think that is exactly what Vega is, Fiji on 14nm with some arch improvements, if you read AnandTech... It reads like it's basically Fiji on 14nm but it needed more transistors to be able to get a decent clock speed, so performance.

And the performance does seem to be pointing to that... a Fury X at 1500 without any IPC loss would be around stock 1080
 
TheRealDeal said:
One thing the RX Vega has over the 1070 is it is a proper dx12 card by the looks of it. It should last longer and hopefully with driver upgrades more performance will come. Ever since the 7970 AMD have shown this will probably be the case. I also think as time goes on games start to use more of AMD's tech so there cards see a boost.
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TheRealDeal said:
One thing the RX Vega has over the 1070 is it is a proper dx12 card by the looks of it. It should last longer and hopefully with driver upgrades more performance will come. Ever since the 7970 AMD have shown this will probably be the case. I also think as time goes on games start to use more of AMD's tech so there cards see a boost.
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DX12 is a wreck right now, or barely relevant.
 
You are all missing the point lol.

The Pepsi Challenge.

It could have been a 480 and a FreeSync screen, against a TXp and a G-Sync screen.

Why would you pay the hundreds of pounds more, that the TXp and G-Sync screen would cost, over the 480 and FreeSync screen, when both would run the game the same, no one would see a difference, as both would never go above, or below the Free/G-Sync range (which would be the same on both screens).
 
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As i see it WE ALL LOST..

If we have not waited for VEGA we could have gotten cheaper NV cards before Pound's value dived down... Damn Could have snapped 1080ti below 600quid few months ago NEW !!!
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
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I saw that on TH.

Also from the AT article on the launch:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11680...-vega-64-399-rx-vega-56-launching-in-august/3



So nearly 4 billion transistors were used to make the design clock better.
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So they internally benched Rx Vega with Dsbr off ? lol When you think that things can't get worse Amd somehow manages to pull smthng stupid out of a hat
 
Martini1991 said:
DX12 is a wreck right now, or barely relevant.
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Played 3 games on dx12 and the experience was better in all of them compared to dx11. The games will come and it's not like AMD's dx11 performance is bad either. I would rather buy the card that has good dx12 and good dx11 support than one that's mainly just a dx11 card. I hate gambling but 7970 v gtx680 is a mismatch in the 7970's favour. gtx780ti v 290x is now a mismatch in most titles and even Fury X has gained. If the Vega 56 matches or is slightly faster than the gtx1070 then you can basically trust it will age better.

Dx12 will come good just like the majority of dx versions have. It takes a while for the majority of people to get up to date hardware so for game designers dx11 is probably the priority atm but the shift will happen and up to date features will be used. It always happens this way.
 
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