Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

[V F]

Do you remember the days AMD had high end GPU's available. I don't either, but still VEGA will be a step in the right direction.

I'm yearning for an AMD GPU cos frankly I'm sick of having to remove Nvidia spyware every time I install a driver update (And yes this happens regardless of how you install the driver, don't believe run Autoruns. It will scare you).

Come on AMD hurry up !

What NVIDIA spyware?

 

[Rroff]

Newer drivers have telemetry stuff and some of the nVidia web services aren't exactly the most secure according to 1-2 people.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

What NVIDIA spyware?

https://www.howtogeek.com/280101/relax-nvidias-telemetry-didnt-just-start-spying-on-you/

Nothing to worry, people are overreacted about Windows 10 and Nvidia telemetry.

Surprised nobody mentioned about Radeon or AMD spyware when 99% cant be bothered read EULA, Privacy and Cookie policies, it no difference from Nvidia.

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[shankly1985]

https://www.howtogeek.com/280101/relax-nvidias-telemetry-didnt-just-start-spying-on-you/

Nothing to worry, people are overreacted about Windows 10 and Nvidia telemetry.

Surprised nobody mentioned about Radeon or AMD spyware when 99% cant be bothered read EULA, Privacy and Cookie policies, it no difference from Nvidia.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/privacy



http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/cookies



http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/eula

Bah
This is very different from software continue to running on your machine! Lool
Windows 10 you can easy disagree to the terms on the privacy setting...

AMD drivers doesn't collect any info from the user "Banner Advertisements" That is all that is included within the AMD driver..

Logging onto a Site like AMD.com or Facebook is very different to having something always running in the background on your system!!

All this you must register to use Gforce has no place and shouldn't be forced upon any user

 

[Rroff]

Bah
This is very different from software continue to running on your machine! Lool
Windows 10 you can easy disagree to the terms on the privacy setting...

AMD drivers doesn't collect any info from the user "Banner Advertisements" That is all that is included within the AMD driver..

Logging onto a Site like AMD.com or Facebook is very different to having something always running in the background on your system!!

All this you must register to use Gforce has no place and shouldn't be forced upon any user

Couldn't agree more - telemetry should be completely upfront and entirely optional with default off regardless.

 

[erazor51]

https://www.howtogeek.com/280101/relax-nvidias-telemetry-didnt-just-start-spying-on-you/

Nothing to worry, people are overreacted about Windows 10 and Nvidia telemetry.

Surprised nobody mentioned about Radeon or AMD spyware when 99% cant be bothered read EULA, Privacy and Cookie policies, it no difference from Nvidia.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/privacy



http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/cookies



http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/eula

Lmao that's something completely different which 99% of all other websites do too.

Please show us the same on the driver side which gets installed and runs every time you turn your pc on otherwise your argument is pointless and invalid.

 

[erazor51]

Delete

 

[V F]

@AthlonXP1800, ah right. I see. So anything that connects to the net is inherently evil.

I personally think GeForce Experience is a great tool due to ShadowPlay.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I'm interested to see Vega vs 1080 on Ryzen compared to equivalent Intel. That should be interesting.

 

[Martini1991]

I'm interested to see Vega vs 1080 on Ryzen compared to equivalent Intel. That should be interesting.

Me too, I expect there to be parity, if anything wins on things like the 7700k

 

[Gerard]

Bah
This is very different from software continue to running on your machine! Lool
Windows 10 you can easy disagree to the terms on the privacy setting...

AMD drivers doesn't collect any info from the user "Banner Advertisements" That is all that is included within the AMD driver..

Logging onto a Site like AMD.com or Facebook is very different to having something always running in the background on your system!!

All this you must register to use Gforce has no place and shouldn't be forced upon any user

Athlonxp in totally wrong shocker. About as shocking as the sky being blue.

 

[opethdisciple]

Interesting post on Reddit titled: Why Nvidia performs so much better in DX11.

 

[Griffildur]

Athlonxp in totally wrong shocker. About as shocking as the sky being blue.

you clearly have not been to London ...

 

[Ayahuasca]

Couldn't agree more - telemetry should be completely upfront and entirely optional with default off regardless.

Does annoy me a little even though it takes a couple of seconds to disable/delete them from task scheduler every time I install a new driver, on the odd occasion if I'm busy when installing them I'll forget about doing it as well.

 

[Baboonanza]

Interesting post on Reddit titled: Why Nvidia performs so much better in DX11.

If you read read to the bottom someone who claims to be a driver engineer says it's tosh and that Nvidia just have a better oprimised driver. That sounds more likely than the confused argument in the OP.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

Athlonxp in totally wrong shocker. About as shocking as the sky being blue.

Blue?! Someone needs to see an optometrist. Everyone knows the sky is Grey.

 

[Ayahuasca]

The sky is actually colourless but lets not get down that rabbit hole

 

[beany_bot]

The sky is actually colourless but lets not get down that rabbit hole

Well.... Everything is colourless. It just depends on what wavelength of light it reflects or scatters (in the case of the atmosphere)

 

[Nablaoperator]

the wait is driving me nuts while the thread digresses from the main topic
we will be soon on page 580.. its an unlucky number for amd fans.. beware

meanwhile, given 0 leaks the 14 august availability looks like one of those UFO sighting events.. does asus normally deliver on its promises?

 

[erazor51]

the wait is driving me nuts while the thread digresses from the main topic
we will be soon on page 580.. its an unlucky number for amd fans.. beware

meanwhile, given 0 leaks the 14 august availability looks like one of those UFO sighting events.. does asus normally deliver on its promises?

They do with a nice hefty TAX on top