Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[Furbs]

I quite like the no fuss style.

Yeah brilliant design, shame AMD are lacking in that department.

 

[Sargatanas2511]

Yeah brilliant design, shame AMD are lacking in that department.

That's all personal taste really. I like both designs for different reasons to be honest.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Better get those Ti and 1080 orders in now, as they'll be absolutely flying out on Monday, don't want to miss out.

 

[Roughneck]

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.

They both have cheated on benchmarks in the past nothing new

 

[Gerard]

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.

LOL, still banging on about a topic from several years back like its relevant. Nvidia getting devs to put stupid amounts of tessellation into games to harm amd's frame-rate (and their own) vs amd bringing it back to a realistic level that visually is no different. Yet only one of these is a "cheat"? Yeah, very unbiased observation you got there.

 

[RavenXXX2]

That's all personal taste really. I like both designs for different reasons to be honest.

Not really in to black plastic rectangle designs, I prefer something that looks cool and is high quality for my £400.

 

[Shaz12]

I can't stand looking at that gorgeous card. Is there any chance a 650W Seasonic Gold can run the water cooled version?

 

[dmcg]

was it today benchmarks could be released?

 

[Roughneck]

I knew the mining hash rate was a load of BS, just trying to drum up some interest in a substandard card

 

[Sargatanas2511]

Not really in to black plastic rectangle designs, I prefer sometimes that looks cool and is high quality for my £400.

So the plastic shroud that's on Pascal is "higher quality" than the Vega shroud? I don't see what you're getting at here with this other than your opinion is that the Nvidia design is nicer.

 

[Gerard]

was it today benchmarks could be released?

Nope, Monday.

 

[ubersonic]

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.

Have you ever heard of the Omega Drivers? If you have been gaming for a decade or more you will have but for reference they were modded Nvidia drivers available from 2004 to around 2008 which most gamers using Nvidia hardware ended up using because they fixed an intentional bug in the official drivers where very high quality texture filtering was changed to high, high was changed to medium, medium was changed to low , etc.

It remains the single biggest driver cheat in GFX history and one that persisted for years.

 

[RSR]

I quiet like to look of the cards, they look very minimalistic and sharp.

 

[RavenXXX2]

So the plastic shroud that's on Pascal is "higher quality" than the Vega shroud? I don't see what you're getting at here with this other than your opinion is that the Nvidia design is nicer.

Metal shrould on ref 1070/1080

 

[nashathedog]

Overdone with angles all over the show? Then they'd just be accused of copying, this looks more understated and not trying to be flashy, which is why it looks good.

They'd never ever do such a thing, Zen cpu and platform numbering was completely coincidental.

 

[Sargatanas2511]

Metal shrould on ref 1070/1080

Well clearly quite a few people don't agree with you, as said it's an each to their own thing.

 

[Gerard]

They'd never ever do such a thing, Zen cpu and platform numbering was completely coincidental.

Comparing numbering systems (which are numerically different) to physical designs, makes sense.

 

[opethdisciple]

One thing that does spring to mind regarding HBCC is the fact that both AMD and Nvidia implemented a shader cache in the drivers a few years ago.

Maybe this is something similar from AMD but as a hardware solution.

 

[Gerard]

One thing that does spring to mind regarding HBCC is the fact that both AMD and Nvidia implemented a shader cache in the drivers a few years ago.

Maybe this this is something similar from AMD but as a hardware solution.

I was under the impression the point of HBCC was to basically extend the capacity of the gpu's vram. They tried a software approach to this on fury x with limited success with driver tuning, this i thought was basically an automatic version of that.

 

[old gamer]

Monday can't come soon enough, all the speculation is beginning to get on my nerves now