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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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GoogalyMoogaly said:
I can't understand how a custom cooled card can be worse than an AMD reference blower.
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It's understandable if AMD are using the AIB's to move the C0 chips they wouldn't or couldn't use in the reference air cards.

I thought the reveiwers would have been on the look out for which revisions being used but none have mentioned it from what I've seen.
 
nashathedog said:
It's understandable if AMD are using the AIB's to move the C0 chips they wouldn't or couldn't use in the reference air cards.

I thought the reveiwers would have been on the look out for which revisions being used but none have mentioned it from what I've seen.
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AMD have to know that's that's gonna p off the AIBs surely?
Since I'd imagine usually that's where most of the sales come from it seems odd to alienate them.

Are Vega yields really that bad? I mean it's not even an HBM2 shortage is it? Just the dies, which they've been making for ages.
Do Nvidias have this issue with the 1070/1080/1080Ti yields?
 
The line I think Nexus said that convinced me to buy the reference AMD card was it was normal for AMD to produce the highest quality boards itself, over engineered and overspec components. Where as with Nvidia the lowest spec was reference and AIB often used better spec components to improve the board substantially. I always thought AMD were the maker where you can do extreme overclock so its not been that way this time and nexus said this way back at frontier launch or before I think
 
silversurfer said:
The line I think Nexus said that convinced me to buy the reference AMD card was it was normal for AMD to produce the highest quality boards itself, over engineered and overspec components. Where as with Nvidia the lowest spec was reference and AIB often used better spec components to improve the board substantially. I always thought AMD were the maker where you can do extreme overclock so its not been that way this time and nexus said this way back at frontier launch or before I think
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Would be annoying if AMD put all that effort into the PCB for their cards and then half-assed the reference cooler like they do.
 
Mine is a C1 revision and happily overclocks to about 1800mhz which when gaming or benching averages out about 1780mhz actual, it does need 1220mv to get there though with a liquid bios flashed to it.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
AMD have to know that's that's gonna p off the AIBs surely?
Since I'd imagine usually that's where most of the sales come from it seems odd to alienate them.

Are Vega yields really that bad? I mean it's not even an HBM2 shortage is it? Just the dies, which they've been making for ages.
Do Nvidias have this issue with the 1070/1080/1080Ti yields?
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It would make sense but I'm struggling to understand why no reviewers have brought this up if they are using trhe C0 revision. They're intelligent people who know a lot more about tech than me so they should have been on the lookout for this.

JediFragger said:
C1 *must* have been a respin, hence the launch delay (and they had a hell of a C0 backlog to shift so are doing what they can).
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I think roughly the same thing, The C0 revision was no good for the reference air cards which is why they are only in the AIO's but, they should never of put a lesser chip in the flagship version.

TonyTurbo78 said:
Mine is a C1 revision and happily overclocks to about 1800mhz which when gaming or benching averages out about 1780mhz actual, it does need 1220mv to get there though with a liquid bios flashed to it.
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The C1 should have been in all the cards especially the non reference models, I don't know that it isn't yet but claims that the AIB's are struggling to build custom cards around Vega 64 suggests they could been given C0 chips.
They may of had hundreds or even thousands of C0 chip's made before realising it was unsuitable for air cooling but that's their mistake so they should have taken the loss and gone with C1 so that Vega 64 got a better reputation.
I hope they haven't sent them C0's but as it stands it seems probable I just don't see why the reveiwers haven't mentioned it if true.
 
its a shame that not everyone is getting the lovely experience I'm getting, I absolutely love the card and that's me being 100% totally honest. I totally agree though that as a whole, this card is just another disappointment regarding what was delivered and what should have been delivered. I kinda jumped on the right card at the right time, it was £449,C1 rev and a monster overclocker so just for me it's been great all round experience.
 
Likewise, my AC is C1 and seems to be working very nicely. I acquired another AC the same today so will see what that and the current one under water, look like later in the week.

There may be an AIO for sale. ;)
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
its a shame that not everyone is getting the lovely experience I'm getting, I absolutely love the card and that's me being 100% totally honest. I totally agree though that as a whole, this card is just another disappointment regarding what was delivered and what should have been delivered. I kinda jumped on the right card at the right time, it was £449,C1 rev and a monster overclocker so just for me it's been great all round experience.
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I'm real glad for ya Tone, I know you've had nothing but a nightmare with your 390X Xfire setup this last couple of years. You deserve it, enjoy!!!!!!!! :cool:
 
JediFragger said:
I'm real glad for ya Tone, I know you've had nothing but a nightmare with your 390X Xfire setup this last couple of years. You deserve it, enjoy!!!!!!!! :cool:
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Cheers mate. Shame crossfire went drastically down hill as there was definitely a need for mgpu atvtge higher resolutions. Now with the cards becoming absolute monsters like to 1080ti and upcoming Volta/Navi, sli or crossfire makes very little sense anymore.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I can't understand how a custom cooled card can be worse than an AMD reference blower.
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They are probably using the worst binned cores that don't meet specification for reference cards, too hot, too power hungry, too much voltage required etc. it's not as important to meet a particular criteria on non-reference as the cooler/VRM's are often overspecced.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
Cheers mate. Shame crossfire went drastically down hill as there was definitely a need for mgpu atvtge higher resolutions. Now with the cards becoming absolute monsters like to 1080ti and upcoming Volta/Navi, sli or crossfire makes very little sense anymore.
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Yup, never again man!! Not til it gets a drastic rework at least :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
I can't believe the 56s are now £500, bloody mental that.
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If they keep selling out then they will keep the prices high. Retailers must be making a killing at that price. They had them on Pre-order for £389.99 last time i looked last week. They must have sold really well for them to bump the price this high. I suspect miners are to blame even though at £389.99 it's a good gaming card as well.
 
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