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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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If the GDDR5 is holding it back isnt that valid to show. I think v64 scores as neutral really overall, I can see why people buy it but I'll take a v56 as thats all I need from what I could see in reviews. If it hadnt sold out I would have got v64 anyway but I went to look at reviews which was not really viable time wise so was too late.

If noise is so great why cant they give us an actual sound recording? reviews rarely do this, I mean types of noise matter but I presume there is no whining or high pitches occurring in its sound output

miners said:
Best value at the moment imo is still the 500 series cards.
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ubersonic said:
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.
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The price is now £549
 
Martini1991 said:
Possibly.

I've got a freesync monitor. Although I'd happily give it up
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Same here, not hard to sell a monitor. Just an inconvenience. At least we know Volta will be even more efficient and offer better performance. Hell even better price for performance maybe! lol.
 
no_1_dave said:
It's for fanboys only
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Listen man I love AMD. I really, really do. I mean, I bought two Fury X. But I could never bring myself to hit the order button on Vega. In fact, I think my Fury X under water is probably better than the 56 any way. It's been sterling for the last six months, performance has really improved and now when it's not running out of VRAM it easily swats aside the 1070.
 
TNA said:
Same here, not hard to sell a monitor. Just an inconvenience. At least we know Volta will be even more efficient and offer better performance. Hell even better price for performance maybe! lol.
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Volta definitely won't be more efficient than Pascal. It'll be less efficient, with higher clocks and higher power consumption.
 
Can we stop the baiting or I shall lock the thread.

Comments like "wow, AMD dropped the ball" are fine but seeing "lol Raja gon get fired for this.. 1070 12 months too late lolololol" are childish and tantamount to baiting.
 
ALXAndy said:
Listen man I love AMD. I really, really do. I mean, I bought two Fury X. But I could never bring myself to hit the order button on Vega. In fact, I think my Fury X under water is probably better than the 56 any way. It's been sterling for the last six months, performance has really improved and now when it's not running out of VRAM it easily swats aside the 1070.
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4GB vram isn't enough these days?
 
pmc25 said:
Volta definitely won't be more efficient than Pascal. It'll be less efficient, with higher clocks and higher power consumption.
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Doubt that. Don't forget they can strip out the tensor cores.

V F said:
4GB vram isn't enough these days?
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At 4K you can really push it - some games on ultra settings and/or with mods I've hit 5GB VRAM actual utilisation (not just cached or lazy garbage collection). I wouldn't buy a 4GB card forward looking now for anything above 1080p personally I was starting to run into the limits of my 3GB 780 hence the 1070 purchase.
 
pmc25 said:
Volta definitely won't be more efficient than Pascal. It'll be less efficient, with higher clocks and higher power consumption.
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Depends how consumer Volta is. If they keep the tensor cores then it'll be power hungrier but if they strip it back just for gaming it'll most likely be more power efficient, although performance may not increase all that much over Pascal.
 
Killer7xx said:
Depends how consumer Volta is. If they keep the tensor cores then it'll be power hungrier but if they strip it back just for gaming it'll most likely be more power efficient, although performance may not increase all that much over Pascal.
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I think the latter is likely, especially now they don't even have to release a card to be ahead of AMD. It's disappointing news for everyone as we could end up in a situation we did for years in the CPU market where Intel drip fed us performance improvements as there was no competition.
 
See the whole stock and "prices going to rise" thing. I don't buy it. (pardon the pun). Im not saying it's specifically an Overclockers thing but certainly an industry thing. I think it's just a dirty ploy to over inflate prices.
 
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