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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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mmj_uk said:
Don't forget AMD have a driver cheat to override the levels of tessellation and games are supporting it more and more now, it's not necessary NVidia's fault that they render games how the games ask rather than at a reduced level to compensate for hardware deficiencies.
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That was only put in because of the way that Nvidia was paying devs to vastly over tesselate in order to make AMD look bad. It didn't matter to Nvidia that it was also hurting Nvidia owners that didn't have a top of the range card.

Besides, I'm not sure you can call it a cheat when it's clearly there in the drivers, and the user can decide to enable it or disable it.
 
FoxEye said:
And this in turn means developers will not be inclined to spend as much time optimising for PC.

In other words, higher prices are bad for everyone, even those who can afford them.
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I can afford 1080ti prices, but it's just not good value in my eyes. 400 is about my limit on a GPU and there's just not anything appealing to upgrade my 970 yet.

It's annoying because I upgraded my monitor to 2560x1600 a couple of years ago and basically stopped PC gaming because the 970 can't drive that res at decent framerates. I wasn't anticipating having to wait for so long for a good upgrade.

Seems the Vega 56 is going to be there or thereabouts but not exactly 'must upgrade' territory. I'll probably end up with one as I want to get into PC gaming but it's not exactly setting the world on fire. Not going to be maxing out games for long.
 
D.P. said:
For most people the use of the PC is for internet, email, word processing. High end CPU, mobo, RAM and GPU just not needed. Your point is more valid for some minorities lie 4k video editing etc,
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For basic stuff there's no need to keep a dedicated unit, at most a laptop/tablet/phone will be enough. Plus, you don't need high end to game decently. There is also no need to buy high/ultra high end hardware to game quite well.
 
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AthlonXP1800 said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6t7hui/vega64_liquid_edition_nowhere_near_100mhs/

It seem confirmation on 70-100MH/s hash rate on RX Vega was turned out to be fake news and TweakTown tested RX Vega Liquid Edition with final driver was nowhere near 100MH/s hash rate.
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Was thinking I would maybe buy the liquid edition and do a bit of mining so it would be like a subsidy to bring the price to what it really should be (£400-500) but now I cannot see any reason to pay the silly asking price :(
 
Hotwired said:
Amazing how something can be overpriced before it is priced.

Maybe it's one of those paradoxes.
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It is priced. Where you been bro? Or you think Gibbo is going to sell it at a loss for us? If you look most things sold here are pretty much straight dollar to pound conversion, is there something I am missing that will change this?
 
It doesn't matter they are more expensive, as thats what they've been showing with their Pepsi Challenge, its all about the FreeSync, when they were showing their slower cards on FreeSync, against Nvidias faster ones, under G-Sync, with the same range, they were both running the game exactly the same, as they both never went above, or below the Free/G-Sync range.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
It doesn't matter they are more expensive, as thats what they've been showing with their Pepsi Challenge, its all about the FreeSync, when they were showing their slower cards on FreeSync, against Nvidias faster ones, under G-Sync, with the same range, they were both running the games exactly the same, as they both never went above, or below the Free/G-Sync range.
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Price always matters, to me anyway.

But I assume you was being sarcastic with that post anyway :p
 
TNA said:
It is priced. Where you been bro? Or you think Gibbo is going to sell it at a loss for us? If you look most things sold here are pretty much straight dollar to pound conversion, is there something I am missing that will change this?
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Yep, that's what I'm thinking as well, 1:1 dollars to pounds. I don't think it'll be far away from that.
 
opethdisciple said:
Link?
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I think he is referring to a tweet they made confirming that it does not do the rumoured crazy hash rates. They actually never said what the hash rate was however, so don't think anything was broken.

Actually what I am talking about is in a link a few posts above anyway... Bit confusing as we talking about this stuff in a few threads these days :p
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6t7hui/vega64_liquid_edition_nowhere_near_100mhs/

It seem confirmation on 70-100MH/s hash rate on RX Vega was turned out to be fake news and TweakTown tested RX Vega Liquid Edition with final driver was nowhere near 100MH/s hash rate.
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I dont think that is saving gamers just yet. Nvidia cards were pretty bad at mining (some crypto dont remember which) until someone took their time and coded cuda for that coin. Cards are going to be published and miner will take hard look on the card and code specific software for them. Vega Fe had really weird memory benchmarks + AMD specific slide for miners with RX.
 
B12B6 said:
I dont think that is saving gamers just yet. Nvidia cards were pretty bad at mining (some crypto dont remember which) until someone took their time and coded cuda for that coin. Cards are going to be published and miner will take hard look on the card and code specific software for them. Vega Fe had really weird memory benchmarks + AMD specific slide for miners with RX.
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Well I have a specific hash rate in mind. If the liquid edition can hit that, I may buy it. Mainly because I really like how the card looks and I would just keep the monitor I have and save the hassle. But that does not change the fact that ultimately I feel that AMD have not met my expectations with price for performance.
 
TNA said:
Well I have a specific hash rate in mind. If the liquid edition can hit that, I may buy it. Mainly because I really like how the card looks and I would just keep the monitor I have and save the hassle. But that does not change the fact that ultimately I feel that AMD have not met my expectations with price for performance.
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Mining is what their banking on.
 
I think these cards will be good tho. Asynchronous compute, full featured DX12 support. Maybe the HBCC and all the other stuff they've packed in might be useful too.

It will run hot and suck power but it's an upgrade for Freesync owners.

Really shouldn't be more than £500-550 tho if it performs like a 1080.

But mining complicates things.
 
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