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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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Ayahuasca said:
Well it was demonstrated you can't say what you like here as your post was removed in that thread.

The last 2 parts of your post should be advice to yourself really as you're the one who keeps banging on about a GPU you won't own and are no longer interested in and you definitely didn't stay on topic in this thread or the owners thread did you?
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Can you please stay on topic...

Yeah the Vega56 seems like a good purchase. The only good Vega purchase IMO.
 
Hotwired said:
I'm happy you are upholding my own and others rights to say what we like also. Even if they disagree with you.
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Yes that's true. And many also agree with me but are afraid of the ban hammer silencing them. Stay on topic now please... jeez.

Vega56 seems to be good. The others not so much.

Shin1234 said:
Getting back on topic, do we have any insight into when the features that are currently disabled will be enabled and what difference that can or could make.
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Ah the hidden hypothetical missing features that will magically make the card compete with the 1080Ti.

Not sure and I doubt they will do anything other than increase mining performance.
 
That kind of difference is only something a miner could care about.

Isn't the whole deal since they would consider performance/watt but still, it shouldn't be a factor for people throwing money at an entertainment card.
 
Kieran said:
You're forgetting VAT. UK prices are listed with sale tax included, US prices are listed without. Basically the price in the UK before sales tax is £415.83 or $537 USD and in the US it's $499 or £388 So yes it's more expesnive, and too expensive, but always remember the tax differences.
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that may explain why we had 600usd vs 600gbp on the 1080

it doesnt explain the differential on the amd, tax isnt circa 50%.

Also new GN video on cost of ownership :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X5aIyBa0gs
 
The Vega launch reminds me of why i've never had an AMD/ATI GPU since 2003. AMD need to do better. Drop the Radeon brand, it's absolutely toxic at this point. Start fresh for Navi launch, thus assuming it delivers on performance and is competitive.

Vega 56 is the only worthy card within the whole lineup. But knowing AMD, they'll price it too high, it needs to be £300 and not a penny more. The Radeon brand will always be looked upon as the cheaper alternative, this won't change. Therefore, the public will expect cheaper prices from a Radeon card. If it's not, then they will just go with Nvidia.

Right now, Nvidia are having a wee dram with it's feet up, comfortably knowing they don't need to do anything until AMD release a better product.

In conclusion, Nvidia aren't AMD's problem, it's AMD who are their own worst enemy.
 
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spikerules said:
Ah the hidden hypothetical missing features that will magically make the card compete with the 1080Ti.

Not sure and I doubt they will do anything other than increase mining performance.
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You dont like the card, i get it, good for you, at no point in time did i mention a 1080ti, compare it to any other card nor state the features would suddenly make it a magical beast of unknown power. Fact is features that were touted as the thing that made vega speciel arnt enabled yet, so wondering what effect those features will have is a valid question.

Also its very telling that the main features yet tobe turned on when you look at them are specifically designed to get around gameworks. Do we need to watch adoredtv's video about it again ?
 
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spikerules said:
Yeah the Vega56 seems like a good purchase. The only good Vega purchase IMO.
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Very happy with my Vega 64 thanks. Even happier seeing 110fps in GTAV the middle of the city @ 1440p almost maxed out when gtav is well known to be crap on AMD GPUs. 7600 in Timespy, just under 23k in Firestrike, and that's still on air throttling whilst I wait on a full cover and backplate from EK. It's not a waste if you've been waiting for 3 years for an upgrade and got a freesync monitor. We are all in different places of the hardware tree. The 56 is a nice little card but it's never going to get level with a 64 due to the way AMD have locked bios flashing and under volted the HBM so severely. The 64 has a lot more potential moving forward. It's not going to beat a 1080ti, we all know that, but it's going to be just fine. Like all AMD GPUs, they do tend to get better over time.
 
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Hotwired said:
Gibbo makes a post here, people make articles based on it, other people make videos based on those articles aaaaaand then it's posted back here.

ITS GOING FULL CIRCLE :eek:
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thats what happens when you make bold public statements, there is a risk the media will latch on to it, it gets investigated etc.

I personally agree with paul, what kind of company does a special launch price without marketing it as such.
 
chrcoluk said:
thats what happens when you make bold public statements, there is a risk the media will latch on to it, it gets investigated etc.
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I expect Gibbo to reply tomorrow with the response "a friend of a friend at AMD told me, but I didn't say I heard it 1st hand which means it wasn't true" to basically makes excuses why the RRP is and always 499 and that everyone including OCuk were price gouging;)

Then again I wouldn't put it past AMD to release a card that is hardly even keeping up let alone competing with year old tech - badly at that - and then increase the price after the first batch and not let the reviewers in on the price difference.
 
Mr_Clark1000 said:
Just tried that mining driver myself (I just do ether when not gaming) and the results are good. So in standard guise it's not great, but that's because Vega throttles something at any temp above 70c, something weird happens and hashes drop quick, so you get about 34 on standard driver and 34.5 or maybe 35 if you're lucky.

With it -30% power and 960 men, -30% core, it manages to stay cool and gives a score of about 33 on the standard driver

Where it gets interesting though is when you use the new Blockchain driver at those settings...

37.3 mh at 240w total system draw!!! That's pretty good right? Well compared to standard.

The drop in gaming (3dmark) performance is about 4% in balanced mode with the Blockchain driver...
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Interesting result. Scary thing is it is only going to get better mining performance in future. Someone getting 42mh/s with VegaFE in news comments, propably with standard VegaFE drivers.
NavyCuda
The reason performance falls off is core temp. As soon as vega gets over 60C performance falls off dramatically.
I'm currently running my Vega FE's at 1137MHz core clock and 1100MHz HBM2 clock. 55C core temp. 42.1MH/s.
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