Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[ubersonic]

Nice minimums

Why are the 1070 and 1080 doing better than the 1080ti? lol.

 

[tyler_jrb]

Not sure if its been posted but, it seems the VEGA 56 cannot be flashed correctly with the 64 bios. Which is a shame.

 

[Ayahuasca]

If miners are buying these then they will buy *anything*.

Bleak, bleak times for PC gamers.

Our prices will be going up in minutes, the cheaper stock is all but gone. I knew VEGA would be insanely popular, but oh my, never seen a VGA launch like it for years, nearly 1000 sold in less than 30 minutes.

Who knows what's making them fly out.

 

[Scougar]

Nice minimums

Those measurements are clearly trash. the 1080ti has a worse minimum than the 1080? lol. yeah sure. RX 480 has better minimums than the Vega 56? Something is very wrong with that test it seems.

 

[awaybreaktoday]

RX Vega 64 sold at $599 at Microcenter for single card. Batch buyers have to pay $800 per card.
LOL over clockers should do the same:

 

[Rroff]

Why are the 1070 and 1080 doing better than the 1080ti? lol.

Either they aren't testing properly or not removing one off minimums or minimums are being affected by GDDR5X despite the average - the 1080 mins aren't that much better than the 1070.

 

[Martini1991]

So I'm on my 290x till navi then .

Maybe I'll buy a 56 at launch, but depends on price.

So now 64 is officially 550 minimum.

 

[ALXAndy]

It's a GFX card.

Not a work of art or anything meaningful.

It's a tool to throw pixels about

That's it.

So when you were posing a few months back saying how much money you had and how amazing your 34" monitor was it was just a TV screen?

Titan X should look a lot more like Vega LE, IMO. If you are paying a high price you should get something that looks as special as it performs. They just got that the wrong way around with Vega. Shame, as it seems they were hoping it would be a lot better than it is.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Power consumption seesm vary a lot depending on which mode is used. A couple of reviews I've seen haven't had the time to test them all. Turbo mode seems to a big power drain.

Well TPU put the Vega64 as barely being 10% faster,and in their review it drew about 30W more than an RX580,whilst being 40% faster and 51% faster than a R9 390. It was 5% better performance/watt over the reference RX480 which never really boosts that high.

The R9 390 draws between 35W to 45W more.

So an aftermarket card with a better cooler should boost a bit higher(and probably draw a bit higher),but it should be quite close to a Vega64 air cooled card. The GTX1070 FE draws less power,but AIB ones tend to be less efficient.

 

[FoxEye]

Sold out already, those miners are relentless.

Miners.

Thank **** Microsoft won't allow 3rd party OS on Xbox 1X.

They way these miners snap everything up they'd be mining on consoles too if it were possible!

 

[TNA]

So I'm on my 290x till navi then .

Maybe I'll buy a 56 at launch, but depends on price.

So now 64 is officially 550 minimum.

So you will skip Volta?

 

[no_1_dave]

People are buying these cards? Seriously? Some people have more money than sense it seems.

All those people buying it deserve what they get imo.

Although to be fair the Vega 56 is a good option against the 1070 if you prefer ATI... Just a bit late to the game

 

[Joeyuk]

To be honest it's a crappy time to buy. Monitors are crap (quality control doesn't exist) and GPUs are expensive (mining craze), plus Brexit GBP slump.

Yeah I know but I missed out when I built my PC earlier this year. Could have had a 1080 2nd hand for £350. Now I'm planning on buy a house next year and really should be saving but could get away with buying in the next month or so otherwise I'm stuck with my 1060 and 24" 1080 monitor for a long time.

 

[ubersonic]

Why? Why buy these for mining?

Looking at it objectively, you're getting ~GTX1080ti mining performance, with the possibility of future improvements, for £450. That's, what £200 less than a GTX1080ti? Now obviously there is a large power usage difference lol, but if you have a way to offset that like solar panels or something that's irrelevant. Also the price difference between the RX64/1080ti is roughly comparable to the electric cost difference for the first year, so some may factor that in too.

I personally wouldn't mine with them but to each their own.

 

[Gerard]

Was able to snag an aio version, not entirely sure if i'm going to keep the order or not . My screen does have a limited freesync range and the fury x with bf1 isn't really capable of running it at 4k, the aio version seems to make that doable.

 

[AMDPower]

did the prices just jump up?

£699 for water cooled version with FREE GAMES. AMD would have to give me a whole steam account full of games to buy that.

 

[Brazo]

So if I pay 1080ti prices I can get a card that barely matches a 1080, significantly loses to a 1080 in some titles like GTA V. A card that is louder at idle than a 1080 is at load....

Woot where do I sign?

 

[harney]

Yeah. Felt the same. Could not be asked in the end.

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I am glad that i am not the only one that feels that way ....

 

[Martini1991]

So you will skip Volta?

Possibly.

I've got a freesync monitor. Although I'd happily give it up

 

[Gerard]

did the prices just jump up?

£699 for water cooled version with FREE GAMES. AMD would have to give me a whole steam account full of games to buy that.

Yup, initially it was £699 for the powercolor card, now the sapphire has jumped to that as well.