The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

TonyTurbo78 · 10 Jan 2018 at 14:18

LoadsaMoney said:
and me with picking up the faster LC for only £599

are they not doing the LC version anymore?

Gregster said:
You got a good deal bud. A guy I worked with asked me to build his lad a PC and gave a budget of £1K and couldn't believe my eyes when looking at prices. I grabbed a Ryzen 1600 and a 1060 6GB but wanted an AMD GPU but prices are shocking!

Yep, its a stonking card @ £400-£500, but £800 for a Vega 64 is absolutely flipping bonkers. GPU prices all round are pretty crazy right now, have been for a while. I can totally see the reasoning for dropping PC gaming for Xbox One X at these mental prices.

Steampunk · 10 Jan 2018 at 14:20

Think of all the money AMD could have made if they could actually make enough chips to satisfy gamers and miners.

TonyTurbo78 · 10 Jan 2018 at 14:41

yes mate, AMD can never get right one way or the other. Always close but not nailed a top tier GPU release in many years.

LoadsaMoney · 10 Jan 2018 at 14:52

TonyTurbo78 said:
are they not doing the LC version anymore?

I don't think so, i think the AIBs are only allowed to customise the air cooled 64, like they could only do with the old Fury range, when they could only do the Pros.

melmac · 10 Jan 2018 at 14:53

TonyTurbo78 said:
are they not doing the LC version anymore?

Not unless one of the AIB manufacturers make one.

TonyTurbo78 · 10 Jan 2018 at 15:03

ah ok, interesting, I did not know they stopped making the reference LC version.

LoadsaMoney · 10 Jan 2018 at 15:19

I think the LC chips were binned for the higher speeds, so if we do see an AIB LC card, it'll basically be the air cooled 64 chip (which is clocked lower than the LC), with the LC on it, bit like when XFX stuck the LC from the Fury X onto their Fury Pro (which also had less Stream Processors).

http://xfxforce.com/en-us/products/...amd-radeon-r9-fury-liquid-cooled-r9-fury-4wfa

HEADRAT · 10 Jan 2018 at 15:47

LoadsaMoney said:
and me with picking up the faster LC for only £599

It's making my 8GB Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 64 Watercooling feel like a bargain at £614 (crazy pricing)

melmac · 10 Jan 2018 at 17:06

Double the price of what I got my Vega 64 at.

pete910 · 10 Jan 2018 at 17:08

If you all payed over £300 for a ref 64 LTD you all paid over odds

LoadsaMoney · 10 Jan 2018 at 17:17

HEADRAT said:
It's making my 8GB Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 64 Watercooling feel like a bargain at £614 (crazy pricing)

I thought £800 was bad, but now they've gone beyond that :eek:

Illuminist · 10 Jan 2018 at 17:18

Wow, so uhh anyone wanna buy my watercooled 56 ..hahahhah £800 ??? lol

uncivil_engineer · 10 Jan 2018 at 23:44

TonyTurbo78 said:
WHAT!!!!!

I've not been looking at prices for Vega or GPU's for a few weeks, cheapest V64 is now £829??? That's insane, feels very smug right now I picked my beast up for £459

I managed to get both of mine for an average of $500 USD before tax. In December, after the mining boom. >.>

It's tempting to try and drop them both and pick up a single 1080ti... but mining and so on. Plus that'd be boring.

hobib_ali · 11 Jan 2018 at 01:36

uncivil_engineer said:
Dual Vega 64 Lurker in Cali, checking in.

wow i didnt know you could xfire vega 64s, are you getting at double performance or atleast an extra 20-30% fps ect? also where is your xfire bridge?

uncivil_engineer · 11 Jan 2018 at 02:40

hobib_ali said:
wow i didnt know you could xfire vega 64s, are you getting at double performance or atleast an extra 20-30% fps ect? also where is your xfire bridge?

Need to get a better PSU to find out. I only accounted for one Vega with my build, so I have a 750W Thermaltake I need to sell to upgrade...

And yes, you definitely can! There's already a decently-sized group X-firing Vegas. And since PCIe 3.0, you don't need a bridge as the bandwidth is high enough to deal with the 2 GPUs. GN actually posted a video a couple weeks ago with SLI'd Titan Vs and found that they came close to hitting the bandwidth restriction. The only problem, of course, is how much AMD is going to be willing to keep supporting mGPU setups...

ubersonic · 11 Jan 2018 at 11:23

hobib_ali said:
wow i didnt know you could xfire vega 64s, are you getting at double performance or atleast an extra 20-30% fps ect? also where is your xfire bridge?

You haven't needed a bridge for Xfire in years, it's just Nvidia that still demand bridges (and 8x or better) for multi-GPU, also you can Xfire any Vega, I have a V64 and V56 in my workstation and they Xfire fine for games.

Illuminist · 12 Jan 2018 at 07:50

ubersonic said:
You haven't needed a bridge for Xfire in years, it's just Nvidia that still demand bridges (and 8x or better) for multi-GPU, also you can Xfire any Vega, I have a V64 and V56 in my workstation and they Xfire fine for games.

What performance increase do you get on average?

Dicehunter · 12 Jan 2018 at 19:59

Work mate of mine wanted to build an all AMD rig and asked for my help in doing so...until he saw the prices, GTX 1080'ish performance, Which is decent, At double the price, Not a freaking chance in hell.
AMD need to sort their pricing structure out.

AmateurExpert · 12 Jan 2018 at 22:05

Dicehunter said:
Work mate of mine wanted to build an all AMD rig and asked for my help in doing so...until he saw the prices, GTX 1080'ish performance, Which is decent, At double the price, Not a freaking chance in hell.
AMD need to sort their pricing structure out.

Absolutely - but if they're making all they can and they're still getting gobbled up at inflated asking prices what else can be done?

JediFragger · 12 Jan 2018 at 22:51

AmateurExpert said:
and they're still getting gobbled up at inflated asking prices what else can be done?

Thing is, I doubt AMD are putting much at all on the cards/chips. But they're certainly gonna get the blow-back from this!