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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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N19h7m4r3 said:
Later this week apparently. So anywhere from tomorrow onwards, as it's supposed to "launch" 27th June.
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Also the article says "should start shipping on Monday" 3rd July.

It also says they will probably be only testing the RX and not the FE. I wonder if this will apply to a lot of sites as the FE is more of a niche product?
 
FE performance would not represent gaming performance.
But the site that will do complete benches of FE will get a ton of hits. There is just so little information about Vega performance, any bit however relevant is worth a lot.
 
five8five said:
Also the article says "should start shipping on Monday" 3rd July.

It also says they will probably be only testing the RX and not the FE. I wonder if this will apply to a lot of sites as the FE is more of a niche product?
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July 30 is for Radeon RX Vega, not FE.

Since it's so niché I expect many would need to specially ask for one, but then again who wouldn't test games on it if they got it. :p
 
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alec said:
FE performance would not represent gaming performance.
But the site that will do complete benches of FE will get a ton of hits. There is just so little information about Vega performance, any bit however relevant is worth a lot.
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I wonder if AMD will allow gaming benchmarks if the gaming drivers aren't released with the card?
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Well the Fury was much larger than the Fury X simply because it was air cooled, and needed more heatsink area.
The same is probably happening here; although that doesn't explain the size of the Watercooled Vega card though.
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The aircooled ones essentially had a framework hanging off the end the heatsink bolted to. Seems a bit odd that one of the main points of fury x and hbm being a smaller pcb has been chucked out the window for this iteration. Will definitely be interesting to see the pcb, if its mainly to facilitate a blower cooler then its going to be a pcb with a lot of unused space.
 
Gerard said:
The aircooled ones essentially had a framework hanging off the end the heatsink bolted to. Seems a bit odd that one of the main points of fury x and hbm being a smaller pcb has been chucked out the window for this iteration. Will definitely be interesting to see the pcb, if its mainly to facilitate a blower cooler then its going to be a pcb with a lot of unused space.
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It might just be empty yeah.

All we we can see on the back at the end is the power connectors, and the TACH.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/3202...vega-frontier-edition-vs-nvidia-titan-xp.html

Here’s the disruptive thing
That brings us to the disruptive part of AMD’s push: Although powerful, Titan Xp is limited to consumer drivers. To approach the performance of the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition with an Nvidia product, you’d have to step up to at least a $2,000 Quadro P5000. A P6000 card, which is kind of the professional equivalent of a Titan Xp, is nearly $6,000.

AMD blames these high prices for driving many prosumers to order workstation-class systems with lower-end professional cards so they can replace them with faster consumer GPUs. AMD believes the Frontier Edition can end this madness and give the company a triumphant return to the professional workstation card game.

Note that the Frontier Edition will do so with pro-optimized software support, though the drivers for the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition won’t actually be fully certified. AMD contends the new GPU design and the HBM2 memory matter as much as the drivers in making Radeon relevant for workstations again.

What about gaming?
AMD didn't show us all this out of kindness. The company is reasonably concerned about how gamers are sizing up the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. AMD cautions that drivers are a work in progress, and at the risk of repeating itself, the Frontier Edition isn’t a GPU for gamers. AMD does, however, expect Frontier Edition buyers to use the card for gaming within the context of work. A game developer, for example, would want good performance when testing the game he or she is building. Game performance in VR for professional visualization will also matter, the company says.

Just a taste
While AMD didn’t want to reveal any gaming performance, it agreed to give us a taste of how Radeon Vega Frontier Edition performs in gaming. So we switched out the 8K Dell panel for a pair of Acer 34-inch, wide-aspect 3440x1440 panels, and AMD let us play games on both the Titan Xp and the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.

To show it wasn’t just an API advantage, AMD let us play Doom using Vulkan, Prey using DirectX 11, and Sniper Elite 4 using DirectX 12. All of the games were set to their highest game settings, and we played at the native resolution of the panels. Although the identical panels were FreeSync-based, FreeSync was switched off on the AMD GPU.

Switching back and forth between the two systems, we’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between the Titan Xp and the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. Of course, we’d expect such performance from a $1,200 card, but many are concerned that Vega just won’t perform.
 
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