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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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shankly1985 said:
Not an issue for me power draw never has and never will. all I care about is the Numbers and Price and sadly that price is to much for me. Waiting for AIB cards and hoping some drops £550 is where I want to see could push close to £600 but that is very much my max..
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Huh? Reference Vega 64 was £450 on release date. I'd want a great custom cooled version for under £500 and a great custom cooled Vega 56 for under £400 (similar to the GTX 1070).

Are people just worsening their expectations or is everyone really happy paying crazy prices for year old tech?
 
DragonQ said:
Huh? Reference Vega 64 was £450 on release date. I'd want a great custom cooled version for under £500 and a great custom cooled Vega 56 for under £400 (similar to the GTX 1070).

Are people just worsening their expectations or is everyone really happy paying crazy prices for year old tech?
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Some people are locked in to not-so-free-after-all-sync and are just resigning themselves to paying 1080ti prices for 1080 performance because AMD are somehow less evil apparently
 
DragonQ said:
Huh? Reference Vega 64 was £450 on release date. I'd want a great custom cooled version for under £500 and a great custom cooled Vega 56 for under £400 (similar to the GTX 1070).

Are people just worsening their expectations or is everyone really happy paying crazy prices for year old tech?
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It's not year old tech if nothing is better this year is it? The TI is a different price bracket and Nvidia haven't released a faster 1080/1070 level card.
 
Klo said:
It's not year old tech if nothing is better this year is it? The TI is a different price bracket and Nvidia haven't released a faster 1080/1070 level card.
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It's the same level of performance but more expensive than a card released a year ago. If you'd have known that a year ago would you advise anyone to wait a year if they want 1080 level performance because in a year's time you can pay an extra $100 for the same thing?

It also means Nvidia are more than likely going to release a faster $5-600 card within months, but it's unlikely AMD are going to release anything new within the next 12.
 
Maybe a simplistic way to say it, but what I see there are the Nvidia GPU's using the CPU to do some of the work to make themselves faster.
 
andybird123 said:
It's the same level of performance but more expensive than a card released a year ago. If you'd have known that a year ago would you advise anyone to wait a year if they want 1080 level performance because in a year's time you can pay an extra $100 for the same thing?

It also means Nvidia are more than likely going to release a faster $5-600 card within months, but it's unlikely AMD are going to release anything new within the next 12.
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No, the fact that there's still no real competition at the top end means nVidia don't have to release a new card at all. I wouldn't expect Volta (at least affordable versions) until at least Spring 2018.
 
Sorry I'm not clued up enough but whats with the higher CPU usage on the 1080TI? I mean it's not like it's maxing out but I'm curious as to why it is.
 
DragonQ said:
Huh? Reference Vega 64 was £450 on release date. I'd want a great custom cooled version for under £500 and a great custom cooled Vega 56 for under £400 (similar to the GTX 1070).

Are people just worsening their expectations or is everyone really happy paying crazy prices for year old tech?
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Old tech? VEGA is top line in new technology right from the hardware. Only it's performance is matching Nvidia last year, but I honestly believe Vega needs new title to really showcase its full potential. Means waiting sadly.

450 for a reference is way over priced and I would never buy a reference cooler from either company. Unless I was maybe water cooling it.
 
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