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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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Davedree said:
Just block them, pointless wasting time with people who are biased to a side or just their opinion.
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So because I have my opinion on choice of hardware I install on my PC I should be blocked? LOL At what point does any of my posts become worth blocking?
Any time I have broke the rules I have paid the price of the forum rules! Surly that is enough?
 
shankly1985 said:
So because I have my opinion on choice of hardware I install on my PC I should be blocked? LOL At what point does any of my posts become worth blocking?
Any time I have broke the rules I have paid the price of the forum rules! Surly that is enough?
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I wasn't referring to you in a single out situation, granted in the past I have had Run in's where your amd defence has childishly defended against my negative reports on AMD. I have problems when evidence is thrown at them and they still refuse to listen. Hence I have blocked a few people.
 
Hotwired said:
Do you think you're doing someone a favour by grabbing their posts and telling them how much you don't like Vega and how they also should not.

In a thread of 145 pages where everything you say is a multiple repeat from pages past.

I go past and see an obnoxious anti-AMD effort and you think I'm posting because of the word AMD in that.
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Tell them how much I dislike AMD?
Did I just point out that given the similar price point having similar performance is not unexpected?
And that if you look at the graphs for the other resolutions (which weren't posted, I'm sure the higher resolutions used to get posted when AMD did better in them) the Nvidia cards did better.
I also pointed out that currently Nvidia might offer a better price/performance ratio. I recall this used to be pointed out a lot when AMD offered a better price/performance ratio so I thought it was ok. Guess not.

shankly1985 said:
Because even though I wont buy Nvidia GPU, that doesn't stop me being a PC gamer fan and be in the know!! I follow the PC scene a lot, it is my main hobby that I spend a lot of my hard working cash on!! Its also because of this love for PC gaming where a lot of what I choose comes from! For example I am a massive fan of Open scouce I been in the Android/Linux community for years to understand why Open Source is massive... AMD aim for is exactly everything I want from the PC platform and underdogs gets my money and a matter of a fact I enjoy seeing AMD win!
Because that Win is better for the PC platform!!

I think I asked you this question before but didn't get an answer!
Why is it the Games that AMD work on are known for some of the best PC games for Performance I.E Alien for example on both AMD and Nvidia!
While games that Nvidia work on are some of the most known for worst performance I.E Batman
Right here the question name me one Game AMD has worked on that was a bad PC port!! Or bad for Nvidia!
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OK, fair points.
I'm not sure that taking an interest requires you to make a post trying to show AMD 1-upping Nvidia. Surely you can do all that and not post a comment to try to bait an argument (which I realise I fell for).

I'm not sure you have asked me that before. I'm not actually sure which games AMD has worked on or which ones are PC ports.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I recall this used to be pointed out a lot when AMD offered a better price/performance ratio so I thought it was ok. Guess not.
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Reaching for history to justify yourself?

I guess it explains something but when someone opens a page here and now it's just what you're posting and not the historical baggage.
 
shankly1985 said:
Lol
Based on what I paid am OK to judge :0 £470 cheaper than 1080.
Vega prices will drop again soon, once supply comes noticed vega is hardly in stock? Reason why prices are higher.

Happens all the time.
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It's nothing to do with stock levels
Vega is in stock everywhere.

I've never seen a launch like this,

It's also selling slow.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
Vega and AMD seem to be doing fine at least they were until the end of September.

According to this article it looks like they took a 4% market share from Nvidia.

http://m.benzinga.com/article/10075390?utm_referrer=https://www.google.co.uk/
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Gibbo said they're slow now.
A competitor has said they're slow when I asked about a price drop.

Sure at their launch price they sold. But right now they're not selling. Vega is *not* fine. £500 for a 56 is ludicrous and anyone who's turning a blind eye is just a fanatic, and a 64 is solidly in AIB 1080 higher end models and ends up too close price wise to a 1080ti where the performance gain difference is greater than the price difference, which makes Vega a terrible buy.

Also, if we're doing article wars ; https://hothardware.com/news/radeon-rx-vega-64-100-loss-at-msrp

Doesn't matter how many you're selling when you're making a loss.
 
Martini1991 said:
Gibbo said they're slow now.
A competitor has said they're slow when I asked about a price drop.

Sure at their launch price they sold. But right now they're not selling. Vega is *not* fine. £500 for a 56 is ludicrous and anyone who's turning a blind eye is just a fanatic, and a 64 is solidly in AIB 1080 higher end models and ends up too close price wise to a 1080ti where the performance gain difference is greater than the price difference, which makes Vega a terrible buy.

Also, if we're doing article wars ; https://hothardware.com/news/radeon-rx-vega-64-100-loss-at-msrp

Doesn't matter how many you're selling when you're making a loss.
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I never said the price was fine. I said Vega and AMD were fine. The sales can't be to bad as it's not AMD pricing them so high. AMD gave a rebate for launch which seen the 64 at £450 and 56 at £380. I doubt the rebate was £120. So if retailers keep the 56 up at £500 sales must be steady enough for the stock coming in. Miners might become a problem if prices were back to normal as well. Still I doubt prices are realistic to where they could be.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
I never said the price was fine. I said Vega and AMD were fine. The sales can't be to bad as it's not AMD pricing them so high. AMD gave a rebate for launch which seen the 64 at £450 and 56 at £380. I doubt the rebate was £120. So if retailers keep the 56 up at £500 sales must be steady enough for the stock coming in. Miners might become a problem if prices were back to normal as well. Still I doubt prices are realistic to where they could be.
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AMD can't be fine if they're making a loss.
All E-tailers say this is AMD's pricing, so it is AMD pricing them high.

I don't know why anyone would buy a 56 at £500. It wouldn't surprise me if days go by without one being bought. There's nothing about a 56 that makes it a viable purchase at £500. You'd just buy a 1080 AIB with money to spare.
 
Martini1991 said:
AMD can't be fine if they're making a loss.
All E-tailers say this is AMD's pricing, so it is AMD pricing them high.

I don't know why anyone would buy a 56 at £500. It wouldn't surprise me if days go by without one being bought. There's nothing about a 56 that makes it a viable purchase at £500. You'd just buy a 1080 AIB with money to spare.
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Let's wait and see what the next financial report says to see what's what. That will be telling as to whether AMD are fine. I suspect it won't be as bad as you think.
 
Hotwired said:
Reaching for history to justify yourself?

I guess it explains something but when someone opens a page here and now it's just what you're posting and not the historical baggage.
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Wait, what? Price/performance ratio is no longer a valid argument? Why? Because AMD aren't winning it?

I guess it'll only become relevant again when AMD are winning it, then it'll be ok to drag it up again?
It's like we only care about 1080p benchmarks now because Nvidia seem to do better at higher resolutions, where as in the past the 1440p and 4K resolution were used because AMD did better in them.

The only things that matter are the things AMD do well on the current cards?
So I guess for now expensive cards are a good thing (no more complaining about Titan prices and such?).
I guess cards that draw a lot of power and run hot are a good thing?
I guess cards that don't quite top performance graphs are the cards we're interested in?
 
shankly1985 said:
Lol
Based on what I paid am OK to judge :0 £470 cheaper than 1080.
Vega prices will drop again soon, once supply comes noticed vega is hardly in stock? Reason why prices are higher.

Happens all the time.
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Why is it always put down to a lack of stock? Supply isn't the issue, there's plenty of stock, 40+ V56's and 50 + V64's here at OCUK and If you check other UK sellers they also have stock. The price will eventually drop but that'll be due to how slow they're selling at current prices not stock levels. The only stock there's a lack of is non reference models, how long it's taking for any to hit the shelves is very telling.
 
So I enabled HBCC I have went from 8GB Vram, to now allow up to 20GB Vram :D :D Give me all them Textures games
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