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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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ubersonic said:
Roughly £191 a year.

Of course that's compared to the running cost of no GPU, compared to my 980ti it would be an extra £122 a year electric, hardly noticeable.
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Is anyone playing games eight ours a day at full utilization of a GPU? Seems like another extreme corner case to support a particular argument.
 
DragonQ said:
More realistically, if you use your GPU for gaming say 20 hours a week on average, each additional 100 W power consumption will cost you £12.50/year at 12p/kWh.

This assumes you've actually used a price comparison website to get a decent electricity tariff and are actually paying a good rate, standard tariffs will be higher than 12p/kWh.
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It always make me chuckle,when people worry about power consumption costs on a forum called Overclockers UK.

We have loads of people here,modding their CPUs and GPUs here just to get that extra 10% performance whilst consuming significantly more power.

There is a website called SPCR,which is more about performance/watt and they undervolt and downclock their CPUs and GPUs.
 
If that leaked review is true, NVIDIA is going to wipe the floor with AMD with Volta. I don’t think the performance gap between the two has been this big in both companies history.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It always make me chuckle,when people worry about power consumption costs on a forum called Overclockers UK.

We have loads of people here,modding their CPUs and GPUs here just to get that extra 10% performance whilst consuming significantly more power.

There is a website called SPCR,which is more about performance/watt and they undervolt and downclock their CPUs and GPUs.
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Not worried more like taking into consideration whilst looking at the alternatives. Why would you buy a card that costs you more than the competition lost purchase? Not very wise. Especially when the competition is better.
 
Nvidia if they were clever along with retailers, could make a killing today/tomorrow if they drop their prices on 1080/1080ti by 15 Or 20%. I'd be all over a good 1080ti for £600
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It always make me chuckle,when people worry about power consumption costs on a forum called Overclockers UK.

We have loads of people here,modding their CPUs and GPUs here just to get that extra 10% performance whilst consuming significantly more power.

There is a website called SPCR,which is more about performance/watt and they undervolt and downclock their CPUs and GPUs.
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Exactly, guys willing to spend £1000 on a cpu don't really give a toss about power consumption do they?
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It always make me chuckle,when people worry about power consumption costs on a forum called Overclockers UK.

We have loads of people here,modding their CPUs and GPUs here just to get that extra 10% performance whilst consuming significantly more power.

There is a website called SPCR,which is more about performance/watt and they undervolt and downclock their CPUs and GPUs.
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I agree, it's not the leccy cost that I'm concerned about, it's the heat generated. I'm wanting to see how the AIO on the 64 performs and how it deals with the heat.
 
five8five said:
I agree, it's not the leccy cost that I'm concerned about, it's the heat generated. I'm wanting to see how the AIO on the 64 performs and how it deals with the heat.
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Thats what I was saying. 500w means near as makes no difference 500w of heat. The actual power used by the card to do computation and processing is tiny. 99% of the power goes to heat it form of electrical resistance.
 
ubersonic said:
You know it's named after the shop who own it right, most forum members don't overclock, hell most of them probably haven't ever tried it.
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OFC I do but if you look in various subforums all Intel CPUs are running at 5GHZ all the time it seems,and nobody cares about power consumption!! :p


spikerules said:
Not worried more like taking into consideration whilst looking at the alternatives. Why would you buy a card that costs you more than the competition lost purchase? Not very wise. Especially when the competition is better.
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You mean like all the people who bought Fermi and FX cards in their droves when the ATI cards were more efficient? The latter was not something I made up either.

But not going to excuse make for this launch either.

subbytna said:
Exactly, guys willing to spend £1000 on a cpu don't really give a toss about power consumption do they?
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It might explain how they can afford a £1000 CPU!! :p

I wonder if they are still using coin operated power meters?? :p

five8five said:
I agree, it's not the leccy cost that I'm concerned about, it's the heat generated. I'm wanting to see how the AIO on the 64 performs and how it deals with the heat.
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Yeah,that makes more sense as an argument - deffo with me having a SFF system too.
 
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ubersonic said:
IIRC Gibbo said in the past OCUK have been threatened by AMDs legal department at times over stuff posted on the forum.
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NDA in a forum you have to be kidding me right !!!!!!!!!! ....We might as well get the stasi in ..

not happy about this ..
 
2pm can't come soon enough and like many others, I am looking forward to user reviews as well as the usual tech site reviews. Those that are buying 64 or 56 enjoy your purchase and enjoy your games. Great to see AMD launching a decent card for the bigger resolutions IMO :)
 
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