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Poll: The Vega Review Thread.

What do we think about Vega?

  • What has AMD been doing for the past 1-2 years?

  • It consumes how many watts and is how loud!!!

  • It is not that bad.

  • Want to buy but put off by pricing and warranty.

  • I will be buying one for sure (I own a Freesync monitor so have little choice).

  • Better red than dead.

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chaosophy said:
I've seen them listed at £145.53 for the all in one unit with the 120 rad/fan but not in stock, mentions that they are already past due.

Think I'll probably get one and fit it.

After the talk of the possible C0 to C1 chip revisions on the air cooled cards and given that WC Vega's never seem to be in stock and are listed at £700 to £800, I ended up buying an air cooled Vega at £480 with the thought that I can stick one of those on for £150 and end up with a potentially better WC'd card at less money, £630.
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They look pretty decent also, think there is another version with a 240 rad but with those quick release fittings I'm sure I could get a 360 rad
 
Kaapstad said:
I am noticing on the bench threads that the Vega64 is just edging out the GTX 1080.
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It seems in newer titles and at resolutions above 1080p the Vega 64 is able to stretch it's legs as the driver doesn't get CPU bottlenecked as much. It would be interesting to see what numbers are being pulled in 6 months time once AMD have had a chance to iron out kinks in the software and drivers and have the DSBR and everything else working as it should.

Has there been any news on Vega 11?
 
Hotwired said:
Can't recall exactly where but someone was ranting about not being able to put an AIO bios onto an air cooled 64 and therefore being the denied higher limits which the AIO BIOS allows(?)

I'll rummage.
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Yeah, would be interested to know about that if poss. TBH I've not totally kept up with anyone on here who has put one under custom water and what type of results they are getting on o/c compared to other cards.


old gamer said:
They look pretty decent also, think there is another version with a 240 rad but with those quick release fittings I'm sure I could get a 360 rad
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Looks like they do pretty much 1/2/3/4 fan rads for both 120mm and 140mm fans with their GPU and CPU range and I believe the kit is all pretty much interchangeable and can link the CPU and GPU stuff into one loop and standard fittings to fit to other kit.
 
lordhawkwind said:
Sorry but until Vega came out Fury X/Pro were the top AMD cards. Polaris have and always will be mid-range cards thank you.
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You are right, of course, I forgot about the Fury cards, sorry about that will edit my post. It doesn't change my point though. The Fury cards are barely a match for the 1070 and would be nowhere near a 1080ti. Just because a review doesn't have the 1080ti in it's benchmarks doesn't mean it's AMD biased.
 
Easy the best DirectX 12 title to date, Recording doesn't do the game justice. Seems the Recording messes with some animations used AMD Relive @TonyTurbo78 Is this what you ment by Recording not looking smooth for this Game?

Highly recommend trying it out
 
Still no Vega11 rumors. You propably need to be real lucky to even get one.
http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-vega-64-...ereum-eclipsing-polaris-efficiency-factor-2x/
One redditor shared his incredible achievement earlier today, pushing both of his RX Vega 64 to deliver more than 43.5MH/s with each card pulling no more than 248 watts from the wall.

By comparison, in our Ethereum mining performance roundup the RX 480 yielded just under 25MH/s whilst pulling roughly 160 watts.

Our resident labmaster and chief Keith May managed to push Vega to output no less than 43.8MH/s, running at a core clock of 1137MHz with a core voltage of 0.98mv and a memory clock of 1100MHz.

Our test bed idles at 138 watts and the entire system consumes an average of about ~385 watts under load while mining. This yields a delta of 248 watts, which is obviously significantly higher than what the redditor claims to have achieved with his system.
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If ETH price goes up, 64 will propably jump off from the shelves.
 
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Its possible they are just destroying their power consumption with the extra 137MHz while not actually gaining much in MH/s from it as in a lot of situations with an otherwise similar setup the VRAM seems to have a big impact on MH rate.
 
shankly1985 said:
Easy the best DirectX 12 title to date, Recording doesn't do the game justice. Seems the Recording messes with some animations used AMD Relive @TonyTurbo78 Is this what you ment by Recording not looking smooth for this Game?

Highly recommend trying it out
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I really don't understand why that game isn't part of the major reviewers games suite, it's nice, it's hard to run, hasn't got any major problems anymore, I think it's a good game to bench, i'm guessing it is because it is a pain because has to be downloaded everytime you reinstall windows (I have the game, had to reinstall windows because of a slow boot bug, can't be assed to redownload 50+gb :( )
 
WeSbO said:
I really don't understand why that game isn't part of the major reviewers games suite, it's nice, it's hard to run, hasn't got any major problems anymore, I think it's a good game to bench, i'm guessing it is because it is a pain because has to be downloaded everytime you reinstall windows (I have the game, had to reinstall windows because of a slow boot bug, can't be assed to redownload 50+gb :( )
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That isn't a issue anymore tbh Windows now let's you move installed games onto another drive for backup. Once you sign back in on new install of Windows the game will unlock.
 
WeSbO said:
I don't think it really has to do with getting free goods as much as it is to do with being able to put out videos on launch day (yeah of course not having to pay is a major plus), meaning most of them would probably buy the components if they had to (and if it was possible of course) to be able to release a review on launch day, and I don't even really think it's for the extra trafic as much as it is for the credibility factor.
Ultimately if brand didn't send out any review components (which probably wouldn't be a smart move) at all to anyone and let them all buy the GPUs at release, the big reviewers would, like PCper and the frontier edition (they probably spent close to 3 grand on the cards they got lol crazy)
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I doubt a review on launch day means much, its not like computer games, the majority of hardware sales are post launch.

Many of the big name reviewers post after launch day half the time as well.

As I said its about the freebies and I guess also the info that gets supplied that allows them to appear as experts.

Even rich reviewers like jay still beg companies like nvidia for free cards, its human nature to want stuff for free. When nvidia initially didnt send him titans he posted a video dedicating to ranting about it.

Have a look at the stuff that doesnt get sent out to reviewers and then try to find reviews on it, they are really scarce.

e.g. I challenge you to find a review of an asus z270 prime motherboard that is not the z270-a.
 
shankly1985 said:
That isn't a issue anymore tbh Windows now let's you move installed games onto another drive for backup. Once you sign back in on new install of Windows the game will unlock.
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Damn you're joking ? D'oh !!! My fault I guess I should have checked before I formatted and reinstalled -_-
 
The activation limits can be a bit of a pain on some games if you are swapping between machines and reinstalling the OS (which in theory should work but in practise is hit and miss) for benchmarks, etc. and having to remember to deactivate each time before a major change.
 
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