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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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It'll be interesting to see how people get on with these over the long term. Will the noise and heat just win out in the end.

Personal wouldn't touch these stock blower cards. Especially at current prices. And when we know they use a lot of power so presumingly run hot.
 
Wow, my suggestion already has 6 votes :D

I think so many more people would be happy to buy, but AMD just got pricing wrong on this one.

People bang on about how many watts it needs, but if that is a concern, you can sacrifice a few fps and run it in power saving mode and it seems to run similar to Pascal. At least that is what it looked like in AdoredTV review anyway.
 
To those saying power usage is irrelevant.
Howling said:
I'm a little curious why people seem to care about power lately :?
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You can ignore the electric bill when it comes round, but the power regulation and current limiters can't ignore the surge in current, that is the point, in particular to rx V56 which is hard limited to 300watts, but mostly that if you are the type of person who just puts a card in and doesn't tweak then Vega is just not for you.

Otherwise buy Vega and enjoy tweaking the p-states and balancing the power limit to a performance which is adequate for fps vs heat and power consumption.​
 
I voted "I will be buying one for sure (I own a Freesync monitor so have little choice)", and its true to an extent. If NVidia supported FreeSync, I might have brought a 1070, but maybe not, since the prices are crazy right now anyway (because of the miners). And plus, as others have commented, there will be more performance gained in v56 over the next 1-2 years via driver tweaks, than 1070, which has been around for a while, so I may still have waited for v56
 
1nsignia said:
I voted "I will be buying one for sure (I own a Freesync monitor so have little choice)", and its true to an extent. If NVidia supported FreeSync, I might have brought a 1070, but maybe not, since the prices are crazy right now anyway (because of the miners). And plus, as others have commented, there will be more performance gained in v56 over the next 1-2 years via driver tweaks, than 1070, which has been around for a while, so I may still have waited for v56
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An AIB Vega 56 at a sane price will be a nice card.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
That is insane. Amd seem to have lost all relevance with gamers and seem more interested in the mining cash. Sad for gamers.
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Yep, insane, everyone banging on saying we need them, yet they are bringing out much slower cards, and some even with less memory, at much higher prices than Nvidias much faster cards, we don't need that, AMD can **** right off out of it!
 
The whole wait for Vega and then small amounts of stock even though they claimed to have been delayed to get the cards into gamer's hands.

Then the heat and power situation. Now I am supposed to watch the website on the day of release to race and get a card for the lowest price.

It's a bit too much for me. I love AMD. My last 3 monitors have been freesync ones but I need more power now and I am also replacing a defective 7970.

Not going to mention the competition at all in this post. :(
 
pagepack said:
What I find bizzare is that Ryzen is priced so well, it's forced intels hand. Vega is the complete opposite, I just can't understand the pricing strategy, is there one?
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They knew they were onto a good cpu with ryzen, vega is sort of polaris like in the sense it doesn't seem to have met expectations. Of course theyre not going to come out and say this publicly, but polaris was rumoured to have fallen well short of where it was meant to be so they marketed it as a midrange card instead of what it was meant to be. Think it was hexus that said in their review that vega just seems to have had a load of voltage thrown at it to get the clock speeds up.

ed: this is the hexus quote:

Our analysis is that AMD didn't get the RX Vega architecture to the performance point it wanted so the company resorted to jacking up the voltage in order to get closer to GeForce GTX 1080 levels.
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To be fair to AMD they launched into a market where cards are being blindly snapped up as soon as they hit the shelves. That doesn't give them much control over pricing.

Unfortunately given the lacklustre performance price is so, so important.
 
Did AMD sign some kind of contract to buy HBM memory instead of DDR5? I appreciate it has better bandwidth etc but if it makes it difficult to sell things for a reasonable price then I think it's dumb using it.
 
FoxEye said:
Apparently the US price is still $499, and £549 is in fact a <1:1 conversion from USD to £.

So US RRP = $499 still
UK RRP is (always was) £549, and OcUK had permission to sell a limited number < RRP.

The plot thickens...

e: Basically we are the new Australia, and we're just being asked to pay more.
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Hun yeah expensive, in France the cheapest is 508€ at the moment (not in stock though of course) and without games of course
 
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