Let's hope AMD drop the price back to £450 tomorrow, no notice required.
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Poll: The Vega Review Thread.
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Let's hope AMD drop the price back to £450 tomorrow, no notice required.
Um - there is this slide in the pack that included the pricing, with the magic words "is subject to change without notice":
That disclaimer can probably be found in 99% of presentations from amd or nvidia or intel or countless others, its like a disclaimer on medicine saying it might give you the 2 brass bits.
I was thinking the same. lol. Does not mean much to me.
Caporegime
This is interesting... gamers blind test between 1080TI + G-Sync and Vega 64 + Free-Sync
6 couldn't tell them apart.
1 preferred the G-Sync rig
3 preferred the Free-Sync rig
2 of the 3 who preferred what turned out to be the Free-Sync rig said they could track moving targets easier on that one than what turned out to be the G-Sync rig.
6 couldn't tell them apart.
1 preferred the G-Sync rig
3 preferred the Free-Sync rig
2 of the 3 who preferred what turned out to be the Free-Sync rig said they could track moving targets easier on that one than what turned out to be the G-Sync rig.
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Weeks old man, in the main Vega thread multiple times.
For real humbug? We have discussed that to death in the Vega thread. lol
Caporegime
I haven't been following it 'that' closely, you can't expect everyone to know what is going on all the time in every thread. 
You have been spending too much time in the cpu sectionI haven't been following it 'that' closely, you can't expect everyone to know what is going on all the time in every thread.
It really isn't and I know this from experiencing adpative sync first hand. I would accept a 30% performance drop rather than suffer without adaptive sync. It is why I have not even contemplated having a 1080Ti because I have experienced the even faster Titan XP on 4k and it actually felt no beter to play than 4k on my Fury X with Freesync. On Titan XP for example, Witcher 3 at 4k was giving about 60 FPS average on the PC I tested. Yet it felt no better than on my Fury X that is averaging 41 FPS in the same game.
For me about Adatpive sync allows a much slower GPU match a faster one without it. If it wasn't the case I would have gone with a 1080 a long time ago.
Caporegime
Tiz true, its more interesting in there at the moment.
Associate
There is no one magic setup though - adaptive sync makes variation in framerate around 60 fps where there is a risk of dropping into noticeably poor framerates a much more acceptable situation and when everything is working right it can make a game feel really smooth - to the point when I first played Left 4 Dead with it I kind of felt like I was skating on ice it was so smooth I was lacking the slight unevenness that I'd got used to using almost like tactile feedback heh though I soon adapted.
At the end of the day though there is no trade off to having high enough framerate.
Agrred, but adaptive sync has significantly reduced the bar for high enough. As I said it feels better for me at 40 FPS with Freesync on that it does at 60 FPS with Freesync off.
To be frank with G-Sync I got another generation of use out of my 780GHz before framerates were starting to drop to the point I felt the need to upgrade which I'd normally have noticed much earlier and so far I'm happy with the 1070 at 1440p whereas without G-Sync I'd have definitely had to buy the 1080ti so... for me it has worked out pretty sweet.
Soldato
We have disagreed a lot in the past Rroff but you are right mate and I agree with your logic.
Had I bought a ROG Swift back in the summer 2014, when it came out, I wouldn't have bought the 295X2, nor the Nano or the FuryX or the GTX1080 last year or the 1080Ti this week. That's £2500 in total.
(the cost of the Rog Swift equals the cost of the 2730Z).
The 780Ti could have served me until the 980Ti (-£450), which could have serving me well even today and possibly next year. So £1900-2000 could have remained in my pocket last three years.
But such mistakes happen only once
Got now the 1080Ti which is a super card for 2560/3440x1440 which is going to be paired with a good gsync ultrawide, and will be used until is not adequate some time 2020.
Slight twist in that story :s I bought the ROG Swift - the first one died on me after a year, RMA replacement (which for a wonder was an actual new monitor*) started having issues, was replaced by an obvious refurb which has also started going faulty - I ended up just buying the Dell S2716DG which is a far better monitor to be shot of the whole sorry story. Sadly not my first experience of this will Asus.
On the flipside though I'm still "quids in" over what I'd have otherwise spent on GPU upgrades.
* Took over 3 weeks turn around I suspect they only sent out a new monitor due to the high level of returns meaning they had no other option.
On the flipside though I'm still "quids in" over what I'd have otherwise spent on GPU upgrades.
* Took over 3 weeks turn around I suspect they only sent out a new monitor due to the high level of returns meaning they had no other option.
Soldato
I am on the 4th replacement of the 2730Z and started flickering again. :/
I had 4K non adaptive sync with a 980 TI clocked at 1450 core but decided to give G-sync a try but nothing at 4k matched my needs of 32" or higher. In the end the only 4k IPS 32" with adaptive sync was a Samsung Freesync type. I sold the 980Ti and got a Fury non X second hand for a lower price. Even dropping ~ 20%+ performance OC vs OC the Freesync experience was superior.
Going adaptive sync saved me from getting a 1080 and potentially a 1080Ti because as you stated, high enough was good enough. A few times I almost went G-sync and 1080 but the price of both was prohibitive for decent 4k 32" IPS.
Soldato
It was the reason sold the 1080 last year and dropped back to FuryX. However I play games were the FX runs our of VRAM atm.
Hence 1080Ti is logical step. Haven't missed Freesync at all this week, because all games are over 90 fps at 2560x1440.