Poll: The Vega Review Thread.

[Gregster]

Well you should for your kids and planets future.

Basically VEGA is backwards on every level.

LMAO

 

[benjii]

Yes in 2016. What a let down for everyone. Now NV will just keep the prices high

Yeah. Navi will most likely hit around the same time as the Volta refresh, so it'll be too late for that as well.

 

[VincentHanna]

It's a shame AMD couldn't do better.

I remember (not too long ago) when the R9 290/x GPU's were released and they were faster than anything Nvidia had at the time, with 1GB more VRAM.

These are barely keeping pace with a 1 year old GPU, and by all accounts they are noisy and power hungry.

 

[Gerard]

Hmm, no reviews of the aio version as yet it seems.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Vega 56 aint half bad.

 

[oweneades]

Just read the Bit-Tech review. The 56 looks decent enough but the 64 seems to be doing its best HD2900XT rendition..

 

[no_1_dave]

1080 = May 2016
Vega = August 2017

Those who waited are missing out on over a year of having that performance and are now getting a power hungry version of it.

Good job AMD

 

[CaptainRAVE]

EEEUUUGGHHHH.

FFS AMD. No competition to nVidia's top tier = high prices forever.

Yup, this

 

[chroniclard]

56 looks to be the only win here.

Do not want.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

1080 = May 2016
Vega = August 2017

Those who waited are missing out on over a year of having that performance and are now getting a power hungry version of it.

Good job AMD

Glad I made the switch to nvidia.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

this is the bit were asus are laughing having not agreed to do any pricing cuts for amd lol

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

(RX Vega 56) looks the best of a bad bunch.

It seems to consume the same amount of power as a AIB RX580,so at least by AMD standards its a move forward.

 

[Dr_Watson]

Terrible show from AMD, been ready to click the order button on a 1080 or Ti for ages, price has just gone up and up, but I just ordered a TI for 800CHF (£634), so happy days in the attend, long time coming. AMD should put all resources into Zen 2 from now on!

 

[doodah]

This whole release reeked of mediocre performance from a long time ago, with the way AMD have been acting. As that supposed former employee said, better to drip feed an under performing product. The 56 sounds decent but not sure what to do now (currently on a 290).

Edit - no 56 for pre-order yet? When is stock due? And 15mhz overclock on the WC (post below) - WTF!!?

Polar opposites when it comes to Ryzen/TR's release compared to this.

 

[AMDPower]

The watercooler version max overcook 15mhz in one review

we need a crying smiley.

 

[elrasho]

Prepare for disappointment...

Disappointment received

 

[benjii]

The watercooler version max overcook 15mhz in one review

we need a crying smiley.

Wow. Until I bought my 1080ti last month, I was holding out for the liquid vega, hoping that I could OC the nuts off it and close the gap on Nvidia. I don't regret my purchase one bit.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Wow, that is massively underwhelming. Glad I didn't wait and picked up a 1080Ti. Can't even keep up with a 1080 whilst being nearly a generation behind.

+1, even if i hate the way Nvidia price their cards i will continue to buy them.. unfortunately.

 

[TheSwede]

Have to say I don't feel compelled to upgrade my FuryX

Same here, was thinking of doing it since felling for a freesync monitor but I wait to next year and see what coming out then.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

The watercooler version max overcook 15mhz in one review

we need a crying smiley.

Kitguru had the air version pushing 1800hz at one point- although Heathrow airport is a quieter place

We will continue to test overclocking performance with our RX Vega64 air-cooled sample. We have heard reports that 1900MHz may be possible and the brief time it took us to see 1727-1832MHz gives us confidence in pushing higher.

although power will be up, doesn't help BG are increase elect prices lol