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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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justbeingmiko said:
Correct me if iam wrong, but surely AMD have not set the prices that are currently advertised, market forces are driving them up. Not sure how this is AMD's fault. It will fall with teh supplier (retailer) and the users (buying everything in sight!!) :)
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What you have all over the forum is consumers complaining about the price hikes driven by other consumers but blaming everything in ignorance on AMD.

If there were less people wanting it the price would head back towards AMDs recommended price which isn't an unreasonable price, appears to have been £450/$499 before retailers decided to let it go for what it would sell at.

So while we're sitting here looking at lines of OUT OF STOCK with a smart alec saying it's priced too high and giving comedy comparisons they're talking actual garbage.

A logical time to say it's priced too high and give comedy comparisons is when you can see 10+ in stock across the board.
 
Another issue that's bothering me. These cards were price decently for less than an hour and the next batch may not come until early next month.

The same thing may happen with the Vega 56 cards so that means £350-£400 for an hour and then £450 which is the same price the Vega 64 was.

Is this the future when it comes to purchases?

I may have to forgo the freesync function of my monitor and buy the best card for the money.
 
DarrenM343 said:
Nice if you to make a statement rather than an opinion which is what I did :p. Who cares anyway?
Maybe I should say "top end" rather than high end. In which case IMO you're right, only the TXP fits that category.
Personally I did consider the 980 Ti as upper-mid but the 1080 Ti as high.
When the 1180 comes out, that'll be the new top end card for a while. IMO a 1 year old card (14months- 1080) cannot fit into high end when it's been superseded by two faster cards :). People who own a 1080 will no doubt disagree.....
All a bit of fun BTW :).
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Oh I know, I was only being sarcastic. It's more to do with price, £500 still puts the 1080 outside the price range of the bulk of buyers. Performance wise it is mid-tier, yes.
 
WeSbO said:
Well you'll be waiting for quite a bit if you want a lower priced 4K@60 card, because AMD under delivered, Nvidia don't feel the need to release a new GPU

http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-next-gen-volta-gaming-gpus-arent-arriving-anytime-soon/
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Poor article. It's principally because gaming Volta isn't ready, not because they don't feel the need to release a new GPU and it has nothing to do with AMD if they haven't finished development. If AMD had released a 1080ti competitor you still wouldn't be seeing gaming Volta this year (see Huang's statement re 'forseeable future').
 
Hotwired said:
What you have all over the forum is consumers complaining about the price hikes driven by other consumers but blaming everything in ignorance on AMD.
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It was AMD who set the higher prices, instructing retailers a few days ago (as publicized by news outlets), retailers managed o convince AMD to cover the costs of selling a set amount at the originally announced prices hence it starting at £450 then jumping to £550.

This means that consumers will be looking at much higher prices than what they have been told in official slides by AMD. The specific variant that is affected by the price inflation is the reference air cooled model which should have shipped at the $499 US price but AMD has told their partners to sell the card at the same pricing as the limited edition model. This means that the reference SKU will be feature a price of $599 US
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ubersonic said:
It was AMD who set the higher prices, instructing retailers a few days ago (as publicized by news outlets), retailers managed o convince AMD to cover the costs of selling a set amount at the originally announced prices hence it starting at £450 then jumping to £550.
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Fair enough. But when it sells out at the price given the argument of consumers misplacing the blame still applies.
 
Mayh3M said:
Yes, the bottom line is they can't compete with Nvidia when it comes to performance per watt. The bigger issue is that this disparity has barely fallen with AMD's last couple of releases. In fact one reviewer noted how this has increased, not decreased.
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Evergreen had completely superior power efficiency over delayed and half year late Fermi.
Did people jump from Nvidia to AMD then?
They basically said "Screw power consumption, you get electricity from wall!"

And defaults sure are WTF were they thinking? -level overvolting to hell and back over optimal for manufacturing process.
But Powersave profile gives quite different picture with major drop in power consumption for only small performance hit.
http://techreport.com/review/32391/amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-and-rx-vega-56-graphics-cards-reviewed/11
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_RX_Vega_64/29.html

If distributors/shops stop price gouging at that profile Vega is quite decent card and step forward for AMD.


Ayahuasca said:
this forum creates a weird perception of what most are willing to pay for a GPU.
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And dubious honour for that situation belongs to Nvidia.
For some reason lots of people don't seem to have much problem of even putting fair 40% of budget to PC's only part which becomes technically old in couple years.
While of course often wanting to skimp in PSU quality...
Or in other part of gaming immersion, sound, with Chinese junk garbage.
 
Klo said:
It came out 4 mins ago, you both must have thought 'quick, to OcUK' when you saw it?
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Exactly :D nothing wrong with that, letting people know as soon as it releases, as a lot of people are waiting for the AdoredTV video... (I haven't even watched it yet :D , in the middle of something else)
 
ubersonic said:
A Vega blower isn't going to be noticeably noisier than a 1080 blower.
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Obviously tolerance of noise varies greatly from person to person but Vega FE and 64 Air cards seem to be quite loud.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graph...4-Vega-64-Liquid-Vega-56-Tested/Noise-Efficie

Here is the tale of a blower cooler on a 300-watt GPU – it’s just is not a fantastic solution. The standard RX Vega 64 sits at a reasonable 35 dbA at idle but gets extremely loud when running a full load, even at stock settings. The 46 dbA score is significantly louder than the GTX 1080/1070 or even the GTX 1080 Ti that has to keep a 250 watt TDP in order.
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