Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[TNA]

I'd be very concerned about the noise levels on these, much louder than the 1080fe which is already unacceptably loud

Jesus!

Anyone seen the noise level for the liquid cooled one?

 

[harney]

think i will hold off for the 56

 

[dmcg]

disappointing from amd

 

[Muz333]

£450 is a decent price, but I'll never buy a stock blower card.

My thoughts exactly. I'd have ordered one now for my new monitor if it wasn't a blower.

 

[shankly1985]

Happy with the Pricing, I going to wait for AIO should be around £500. The Water cooled is £100 too much for me

 

[tyler_jrb]

Frankly I don't care. As I said previously several times - hell could freeze over before I give NV any more of my money - like Yodel/HDN, Amazon and anything the Murdoch's touch they are on my banned list.

Checkout time was 14:00:00 - though only just got the email at 14:10

Bit of a strange way to go about it considering you would have a card 30-40% quicker, quieter and use a lot less power whether you like NV or not.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

TPU is quite critical on AMD cards,and yet they gave Vega56,a 9.2 and an Editors award. Vega64 does not seem so hot by comparison if you look at the charts. Its 10% faster for a massive increase in power consumption.

 

[ubersonic]

You putting it under water....

That's the plan eventually, if EK bring out an aluminium block for it I will put it in my main rig to replace my 980ti when I switch back to water later in the year, if not I will put it in my workstation and put the 1080 in there atm in the main rig.

 

[Ayahuasca]

It's a shame AMD couldn't pull off the double on the CPU and GPU scene, from what I understand though their CPU and GPU divisions are pretty much seperate entities and there's still meant to be some old fogi's around from the ATI days holding things back.

TPU is quite critical on AMD cards,and yet they gave Vega56,a 9.2 and an Editors award. Vega64 does not seem so hot by comparison if you look at the charts. Its 10% faster for a massive increase in power consumption.

56 looks decent and might be what I go for dependant on pricing.

 

[Gregster]

Surprised at the hate. Price is better than was being touted, performance is where we all pretty much expected and it is a very capable card. Whilst not the best of cards or prices, AMD have done well with a limited budget and gives Freesync owners a chance to turn the settings up in games.

 

[Relentless81]

Suspicions confirmed, pricing isn't as bad as mist thought currently but not buying a reference card. Will wait for AIB cards and see what they do with the 56 but its looking unlikely that ill get one of those either as I cant see it being worth it over my Fury for the cost difference

 

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

Thanks to Gibbo for the decent pricing on the 'basic' model, the only other place I could see selling them at 2pm was a hundred quid more.

Guess I have a new card on the way...

 

[RSR]

 

[jaffveyda]

Surprised at the hate. Price is better than was being touted, performance is where we all pretty much expected and it is a very capable card. Whilst not the best of cards or prices, AMD have done well with a limited budget and gives Freesync owners a chance to turn the settings up in games.

I completely agree.

 

[jonjay]

I am happy and sad.

I am really happy I got my 980ti when I had enough of what AMD were doing what they are doing now. I am sad to whats happened to AMD and what they are trying to sell. I think anyone buying VEGA knowing it is slower, louder and more power hungry need to have a long hard look at themselves. Its like pre-ordering of games that get released that are broken and need endless patches, until people stop pre-ordering then this problem wont go away. Same for AMD, if people vote with their wallets they will be forced to release better bang for buck, power vs performance cards to make them relevant.

 

[MikeB]

Not putting up with those noise levels my R390 drives me nuts as it is

 

[Klo]

It's a GFX card.

Not a work of art or anything meaningful.

It's a tool to throw pixels about

That's it.

Classic opinion stated as fact.

 

[opethdisciple]

The claims on the product page for HBCC are interesting tho....

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It's a shame AMD couldn't pull off the double on the CPU and GPU scene, from what I understand though their CPU and GPU divisions are pretty much seperate entities and there's still meant to be some old fogi's around from the ATI days holding things back.

Vega56 looks OK TBH and is very close to the Vega64 too,and it seems a bit quicker than a GTX1070. Vega64 once the price goes up will be pointless,so it makes more sense to look at what Nvidia has.

 

[HeX]

I'd be very concerned about the noise levels on these, much louder than the 1080fe which is already unacceptably loud

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_rx_vega_56_8gb_review,11.html

Louder than a stock 290X and everyone knows that those things were awful :|

These cards look great if you plan on slapping a waterblock on there, otherwise i'd wait for AIB versions.