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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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Davedree said:
Steve and Gamernexus tweaked a rx 56 to 1525mhz on core at 210, up 30 watts from throttling stock and down 60w from a 1475 core clock
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Not much interested in any of his reviews TBH, some of its useful but he also he comes out some reall stinkers, like "Ryzen R7's are pointless cuz CUDA" Christ... no wonder the image quality of his videos is #### poor.

I don't waste my time on them, plenty of good reviewers out there to satisfy my knowledge needs.
 
humbug said:
Not much interested in any of his reviews TBH, some of its useful but he also he comes out some reall head turners, like "Ryzen R7's are pointless cuz CUDA" Christ... no wonder the image quality of his videos is #### poor.
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I know you have a disregard for him but he tested what he had at the time so his conclusions were valid about Ryzen. As time has moved on his viewpoints adapt and change and he reviews his older material.
Considering he works along side buildzoid and interviews with main Amd engineers, he provides a great geeky insight and he explores areas that most gamers or general enthusiasts either can't comprehend or don't have the interest.
For me it's a dream come true as I can relate to his testing methods as I have been doing the same voltage scaling and power plotting for many years, and most reviewers don't even know how to undervolt or tweak voltage.
 
Sasahara said:
They are poor miners as I suspected 32-35 MH/s on Ethereum barely over an RX480/580, but twice the price.
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I presume demand for RX580/480 is high. If in AMD position I would not produce much VEGA 64 or 54 and concentrate on polaris die on the silicon to make maximum profit.
VEGA die would not make AMD much profit and highly doubt demand is high for these apart from the initial rush.
 
TNA said:
Did you order one Loadsa? lol.

I was so close to ordering the liquid one as Gibbo did a good job on prices,.
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:P Did I read that correctly?

A card that performs 30-40% slower than a 1080ti and costs the same is a good price??

I can't think of any circumstance where £640+ for a slower card is a good price - and that's coming from someone who bought a freesync UW monitor in anticipation for this Vega release!
 
Davedree said:
I know you have a disregard for him but he tested what he had at the time so his conclusions were valid about Ryzen. As time has moved on his viewpoints adapt and change and he reviews his older material.
Considering he works along side buildzoid and interviews with main Amd engineers, he provides a great geeky insight and he explores areas that most gamers or general enthusiasts either can't comprehend or don't have the interest.
For me it's a dream come true as I can relate to his testing methods as I have been doing the same voltage scaling and power plotting for many years, and most reviewers don't even know how to undervolt or tweak voltage.
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His conclusions on that were never valid, what he was saying was high core count CPU's like the Ryzen 7 were useless because you could accelerate everything with CUDA, aside from that fact that that is so untrue its not even funny anymore what he obviously also doesn't know is that even with CUDA acceleration core counts still scale.
To me that shows he has a severe lack of knowledge and understanding.
His snarling attitude about it was also way out of line, he was behaving like a fanboi when he said it, literally sniggered at the idea of a mainstream 8 core CPU.
People like him are part of the reason Intel got away with 4 core mainstream CPU's for 10 years.

Maybe Buildzoid has put him right at this point but the damage is done as far as i'm concerned, it is the snarling attitude he had at the time that's done it.
 
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