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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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perf even worse than i thought.
i know vega did cost a lot for AMD, but they missed the mark on pricing, both SKUs needed to be 50$ off at least to make the pill easier to swallow, or bring it a year before.
raja shiet the bed with his 1st architecture, how can he get this performance out of a 480mm² die on 14nm ???
and the worst of it all is that they had more than enough time to ready up the drivers, seeing that they had to delay few months waiting for hbm2, i think AMD doesn't know how to improve the CU efficiency passed the 2.5k stream processors, another reason for them to rush Navi, they would be a lot better with smaller dies.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
Well people keep saying that will be Raja's first full on design and he won't be able to deflect if it's poor.
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From the little we know about Navi, Navi is just going to be a revised and optimised version of Vega built on smaller cores and glued together in one package so i wouldn't expect to see wholesale changes in the design approach when Navi finally lands. What we might have by the time Navi lands is a games industry more use to coding for low level API's, FP16 and better use of A-Sync shaders technology which should close the gap in performance.
 
Pass.

No overclocking because the drivers don't support it well enough so the reviews are incomplete/rushed and the prices are just too high.
What a load of crap about delaying release because of miners.
Maybe they could sway me with some miracle AIB's or future price drops but this release was a total failure.
 
MichaelM said:
Pass.

No overclocking because the drivers don't support it well enough so the reviews are incomplete/rushed and the prices are just too high.
What a load of crap about delaying release because of miners.
Maybe they could sway me with some miracle AIB's or future price drops but this release was a total failure.
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seems 40Mh/s which seems the same as the beta Drivers on testing last week. Mabe miners have jumped on to take risk. AMD already increasing 470 rate by 1.2Mh/s with coming driver

was tempted to buy a stock version and hope for drivers to mature then sell but busy in work and are all gone
 
Gregster said:
Pretty much what I expected and on par with a 1080 and at a decent price.
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What?

For the cheapest one you can get a 1080 for the same money...

For the water cooled one they want 1080ti money!?!?!?

This is absurd... I have no idea what was going through their minds... to release a product 2 years too late and price it with the competition instead of noticeably under it for a worse product.

Maybe miners will buy them...

£200-250 and maybe...
 
From the TechPowerUP review:
Overclocking simply does not work on AMD's press driver. No matter what setting was chosen, the actual frequencies did not change. Apparently nobody tested overclocking before declaring the driver ready to give to the press.
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Amazing XD
 
This is a really pathetic attempt at competition from AMD. I feel like invoicing them for the time wasted reading and checking forums for the last year.
I can't believe they've managed to produce such an abortion of a card. The GTA 5 benches are what really alarm me. 28.8fps at 4K in a game from 2015 wtf??
 
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