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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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Panos said:
The monitor isn't that bad, assuming you can keep up above 48fps :p
Nah the offer ain't worth. There are far better monitors coming with Freesync 2, albeit unknown pricing. (hopefully like the ridiculous $1400 4K 144hz 27" Gsync ones)
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Haha thanks mate. It's a shame as I'm planning a new build and would seriously consider a Radeon Pack as I need all of the components. I just won't be happy with a rubbish monitor.

Guess I could always buy it and flog it to one of you guys in the market.
 
Some interesting info in this video from Jay about Titan Xp and Nvidia "Not a Gaming card" :p 3x Performance Driver! mark my word here Nvidia would never have released this driver had AMD not pushed the Compute space so hard!!
Sneaky Nvidia very Sneaky ! I will never back this type of practice with my money!
https://youtu.be/XmSrCy3m9cI?t=476
 
Zeed said:
SCORE18 363 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti(1x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor
Graphics Score 21 335 Physics Score 17 912 Combined Score 9 150

That's on my TI on my x99 platform
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I'm not sure why you felt the need to write in big letters? Regardless it doesn't change anything, A 980ti is not in the same league as a 1080. A quick google gives enough examples to prove it.



Now I'm sure you're very happy with your 980ti, I would be if I had one too and I'm sure you think or even know it's a good overclocker but don't kid yourself a 1080 is the faster card and the gap grows even bigger with the so called next gen api's.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-980-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1080/3439vs3603
 
shankly1985 said:
Some interesting info in this video from Jay about Titan Xp and Nvidia "Not a Gaming card" :p 3x Performance Driver! mark my word here Nvidia would never have released this driver had AMD not pushed the Compute space so hard!!
Sneaky Nvidia very Sneaky ! I will never back this type of practice with my money!
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There are more things on the NV current hardware than are not active on the drivers. On hardware level all their Pascal cards support VESA's Adaptive sync (DP 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0 ports), but the drivers don't have the code to use it. If they do so, their whole gsync monitor range goes down the drain.

Also if you read some articles about the Nvidia drivers and their issues with the Ryzen CPUs performance, it affects the Intel mesh topology ones also (SkylakeX & KabylakeX). Hence you see them showing poorly on all the reviews and similar performance to the Ryzen CPUs (7820X vs 1600X is a good example while the former is on 15% higher clocks). Unfortunately not one of the reviewers has used an AMD card (one did with CF 480 only but Ryzen system), understandably since there isn't any out there at this moment yet at 1080 level perf for CPUs to stretch their legs. I bet you, by end of this month, when 4-5 big reviewers raise the issue (comparing the perf to Vega & various CPUs) and the people start talking about it, NV is going to fix this. 6 months after the Ryzen release and two months after the Intel X299 release.

Also look at the current GTX1080s. There is a "silent" refresh with higher speed Vram, and there were voices last year, they they use cheap crap GDDR5X ram on the 1080 instead of better one that were available.
While their GDDR5 cards, were using worse RAM than the RX series GDDR5.

Yes NV has some great cards on the upper market atm, but morally is a terrible company and isn't first time doing such things.
 
Panos said:
Also look at the current GTX1080s. There is a "silent" refresh with higher speed Vram, and there were voices last year, they they use cheap crap GDDR5X ram on the 1080 instead of better one that were available.
While their GDDR5 cards, were using worse RAM than the RX series GDDR5.
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What the actual? nVidia pretty much sold their soul to Micron to bring forward GDDR5X - there was no other availability which was why the 1080 launch surprised many commentators with competing GDDR5X solutions not available until months later.

Although there are exceptions most of the GDDR5 cards (contemporary with the RX series) from both AMD and nVidia use the same K4G80325FB chips.

The level of anti-nVidia rhetoric around here really is reaching new lows of complete misinformation lately :s
 
nashathedog said:
It looks like the first of the Freesync 2 monitor's are landing just in time for Vega,

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...-hdr-widescreen-curved-monitor-mo-236-sa.html

32", 1440p, Quantum Dot, HDR, LFC, Freesync 2, 1ms, 144hz VA panel.

Sadly I can only afford one or the other :(

I wonder if Crowley can do me a deal!
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Nice price for a 32" but in my opinion the resolution is too low for that size. I would save some money and go for the 27" version. Will be higher quality due to better PPI.

I would even prefer they made a 24" one. Would be better PPI, no need for curve and probably a lot cheaper.
 
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