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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **
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Rumor: VEGA has been delayed, but not because of yield issues but because of performance issues
https://videocardz.com/70511/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-features-gaming-mode
Seems like AMD's driver team hasn't been getting any sleep for the last 6 months. Which matches up to the problem mentioned by Raja during the AMA. Will be interesting to see what they can accomplish.
https://videocardz.com/70511/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-features-gaming-mode
Seems like AMD's driver team hasn't been getting any sleep for the last 6 months. Which matches up to the problem mentioned by Raja during the AMA. Will be interesting to see what they can accomplish.
Well for one its a new chip which always need time to use its full potential (just look at the Rottr Ryzen patch...28% plus FPS).
Also when the usual day one game drivers could yield an average 10-15% for the cards, it wouldn't make sense...let's say it would be disastrous to test Vega with the professional driver which hasn't got any game profiles.
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Driver guy sure is busy lately!! Wonder if AMDMatt has been helping him out again, we haven't seen him in a while....
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Looks like Vega will indeed be pretty power hungry, AMD are recommending an 850w PSU with Vega FE;
http://pro.radeon.com/en-us/product/radeon-vega-frontier-edition/
My 850watt Gigabyte Odin Pro wasn't enough to power a 390X, 6700k, 16GB RAM and a few hard drives. This doesn't surprise me at all.
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Hype train wobbling!
Pretty much the only sensible thing to assume at this point:
AMD should really let the driver team do its work and learn lessons from this because Navi is going to be the same.
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Remember it is a rumour, and being that for well over a year we have been pretty sure it would be 2nd quarter this year it doesn't seem too delayed. We will just need to wait and see.
Why will it?
I think Vega FE technically keeps their promise true for a Q2 launch, with the RX coming out a month later.
Why are there no reviews? Did reviewers not have these days before?
Yes technically, but I think most people were under the impression that Vega Gaming was going to be released in Q2 as AMD didn't say otherwise until they announced the FE launch date.
It appears no FE cards have been sent out for review. Review sites are buying their own if they want to review them.
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You can't say they didn't deliver though being that people are buying them and getting them. AMD never said they would have the gaming editions of Vega available in Q2 either.
They did, they said Vega H1. They didn't differentiate between the FX and the RX until the FE launch date was announced for June and the RX at Siggraph.
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Well it explains the delay, the lack of gaming benchmarks and why AMD have been so guarded regarding gaming performance.
And Vega has been launched in H1. No its not the card lots of people wanted but it meets what they said
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If a rumour page is able to "explain" circumstance then I guess we may as well believe all rumours.....or not.
Think I'll wait for actual news from AMD before believing articles requiring buckets of salt.
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