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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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Glad i cleaned my PC out on saturday, gave my Sapphire RX 480 a nice clean up, took the fans out and give em a right good cleaning, heatsink too.

It doesnt see over 60c in games with the core at 1400MHz :D

Now where is the Navi Hype Train? I wana get on! :eek::o:rolleyes::p:)
 
Besty said:
Looks like AMD did a much better job at implementing GPU clock auto-boost this time around.
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But again with the air cards you either need to crank the fan up or do aftermarket cooling to maintain those clocks, same as nv reference cards. They do seem to have gone the nv route in terms of how boost is implemented though, despite past rhetoric as to not liking the boost mechanic.
 
humbug said:
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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If that's how you feel then fair enough I get what you mean by his smirk kind of mutter under the breath thing though, that does get a little annoying.
In reference to his first ryzen review he wasn't impressed with the bugs and problems and he still recommended a 7700k over the ryzen's, which was what I was referring to.
The Cuda part you are referencing I have mixed views as Gpu compute will always trounce cpu computeIn a workload that is programmed for it, and effectively Amd have had HSA sat on the shelf for many years too, but I agree with you too that higher core count on cpu's is still just as relevant.

His recent work with the r5 1600 and threadripper is excellent though.
 
Gerard said:
But again with the air cards you either need to crank the fan up or do aftermarket cooling to maintain those clocks, same as nv reference cards. They do seem to have gone the nv route in terms of how boost is implemented though, despite past rhetoric as to not liking the boost mechanic.
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How comes you went for one, bored of your Titan XP? :p


MyBrains said:
Glad i cleaned my PC out on saturday, gave my Sapphire RX 480 a nice clean up, took the fans out and give em a right good cleaning, heatsink too.

It doesnt see over 60c in games with the core at 1400MHz :D

Now where is the Navi Hype Train? I wana get on! :eek::o:rolleyes::p:)
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This hype train will be: Raja's first GPU from ground up since joining AMD.

All aboard!! :D
 
TNA said:
How comes you went for one, bored of your Titan XP? :p
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Its for my ryzen system, been considering selling the system in my sig and staying with my 1700 ryzen system with fury x. If i can get 60fps 4k in bf1 with this card i might do that :)
 
Gerard said:
Its for my ryzen system, been considering selling the system in my sig and staying with my 1700 ryzen system with fury x. If i can get 60fps 4k in bf1 with this card i might do that :)
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Ah fair enough. Hopefully should be able to get 60fps hopefully.

Let us know how you get on with it. Won't lie, I am a little disappointed that I am not getting a Vega Liquid Edition. AMD just made it near damn impossible for me to get it though. But it is easily the best looking graphics card I have ever seen :)
 
You can gloss it up all you want but it is power hungry and gives levels of 1080 a year later, plus the price is heading up fast due to the natural demand supply cycle.
 
I closed 3 threads and left two open.

One for the reviews/performance discussion, one for the sales/pricing/buying etc.

That doesnt even include the owners threads I have left alone.


So that was what 7 threads taking about vega? oh wait there are already a further 2 that have been closed making 9 in total:D
 
Threadripper indeed :p

Did anyone travel to the ocuk shop and pick up a card in person. I want to literally hear this card under load to judge its usability, no benchmark can show that really. All the reviews I've seen are talking heads not showing the rig so much.

64 is dead in the water and a complete waste of effort.
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No I dont think so but I imagine a few owners will want to fit extra cooling and secure a good overclock with it. I think Vega at the 450 price at least was a fair buy, nothing to jump at but anyone with Freesync is obviously biased and will be glad to have it probably.

Everyone in tech should be glad to have AMD providing competition and hopefully this becomes a base for Navi to do even better.
Last thing we want is Nvidia and only nvidia to be supplying parts of the market
 
In places the 64 barely seems better than the 56. Very curious to see how it will pan out. From what I can see, that might also be due to lower clocks, not only the reduced cores.

64 simply doesn't seem good value at this point, unless drivers are gonna be doing some magic.
 
Telecaster said:
Loud, hot, power hungry @ 1080 performance - 64 is dead in the water and a complete waste of effort.

56 doesn't look too bad but it all rests on pricing.
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I want to see what gains people get from undervolting the card.

The problem with Vega 64 is although it sucks now next year it will probably be trading blows with a 1080ti in new titles. By then i reckon AMD will have already stopped production altogether.
 
Freddie1980 said:
I want to see what gains people get from undervolting the card.

The problem with Vega 64 is although it sucks now next year it will probably be trading blows with a 1080ti in new titles. By then i reckon AMD will have already stopped production altogether.
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I don't get this fapathon over AMD cards getting quicker with time, surely if you're paying top dollar for a card right now then you want that performance, er.., right now!! Not in 12-18 months bloody time.

Big deal if it competes with a 1080ti in 12-18 months, nobody will care because they'll all have a 1180ti at 50-75%+ performance.
 
The point there is Nvidia costs more for the same system and you must upgrade more often, talking msrp anyhow.

TNA said:
This hype train will be: Raja's first GPU from ground up since joining AMD.

All aboard!! :D
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I'm still on the Raja/Navi hype train tbh

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