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VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!
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Caporegime
Of course but in the business of making money from mining they aren't going to hang about when official reviews launched at the same time the cards did.
Caporegime
Thats true.
ope, checked a few reviews and 7gb difference at least. e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-and-56-review/19
in BF 56.4 - 49.4 =7db difference or about twice the volume.
Some will have seen the recent rumour about very high hashrates on a lot of the tech sites and probably dived in before realising it was incorrect.
Wasn't that same rumour almost officially promoted on this site? I know that Gibbo just reiterating a rumour doesn't make it true, but it certainly made me think it had some weight to it.
That's where it came from, then some forum members felt the need to spread it to tech sites.
Didn't like to mention any names
.Gibbo did qualify it by saying the rumour could be rubbish but it didn't stop it becoming an internet sensation
To be fair, I think some sites keep an eye on the forums for any juicy gossip.
Alternatively, certain forum members could be on retainers with the sites
Caporegime
Yes there are several Vega threads but most of them are pre Launch and i think this is valuable information that deserves more than getting buried after 10 minutes in already over bloated old threads.
AdoredTV discovered some very interesting aspects to the AIO cooler Vega 64.
In short it has 3 power to performance balancing modes, Turbo, Balanced and Power Saver.
What he found was performance in games Turbo mode vs Balanced the difference was 2 or 3 FPS out of 140+, a power difference of 90 Watts.
In Power Saver mode the performance was down about 10 FPS whilst the power was down another 100 Watts, totalling 190 watts down on power consumption. WHAT? :O
What do you guys think of this? maybe this is some feedback to AMD, is it worth them producing a 400 watt GPU when the same GPU running at 200 Watts is only a little slower?
AdoredTV discovered some very interesting aspects to the AIO cooler Vega 64.
In short it has 3 power to performance balancing modes, Turbo, Balanced and Power Saver.
What he found was performance in games Turbo mode vs Balanced the difference was 2 or 3 FPS out of 140+, a power difference of 90 Watts.
In Power Saver mode the performance was down about 10 FPS whilst the power was down another 100 Watts, totalling 190 watts down on power consumption. WHAT? :O
What do you guys think of this? maybe this is some feedback to AMD, is it worth them producing a 400 watt GPU when the same GPU running at 200 Watts is only a little slower?
Caporegime
Ah that makes sense.
And out of context of my future replies. But still I am interested in seeing what the card can do.
Because an I state in BIG CAPITAL LETTER *RUMOUR*, but we had a miner ring us today begging to allow him to send money in our bank to be first in the queue for VEGA's, even was willing to pay £800 per card, when quizzed over why so desperate, he was of the firm believe that with some hacking they could get 80 hash, we did not go into details but suggested they believe nothing until seen, but at the same time we have no idea about what specific coin, currency they were mining. In short we said look, unfortunately were not opening VEGA to miners, irrelevant of what you offer, the product is in severe shortage and both AMD&OcUK want VEGA to go to gamers, hence it shall remain at 1pc per customer until supply is in the thousands. Then if your still so crazy mad for these things, you can buy some, but he was very insistent a single VEGA could nearly match three 1070's, when I heard this I was shocked because to my knowledge the max they do is around 40 hash so far, but of course the professional miners have not got VEGA yet. As such there is no telling what these guys do, they could be hacking driver, BIOS, modding the card in some way or are just completely mental and living on a pipe dream.
Right now if your mining, read the reviews and believe the hash rates published there but at the same time I am sorry but VEGA shall be reserved for gamers and gamers ONLY until supply is enough for all.
On the plus side around 2000 RX 580's are due in the next few days!
Soldato
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All my 1070s do 30-31 @ 105-110w. They don't need 100% power for best performance, so Vega is a million miles away.
Caporegime
If you're going to pay Vega 64 AIO money and running it power saver. You may's well buy a 1080Ti
Caporegime
Makes me wonder what people at AMD are doing to be honest, took a reviewer a couple of hours to realise that but nobody at AMD noticed or were bothered about sky high wattage for the performance level.
Soldato
Says a lot that you have to throttle the card to keep it under control.
If power and heat weren't as bad I might of bought one.
If power and heat weren't as bad I might of bought one.
Soldato
And also just like there CPU's they run at very low clocks. Imagine these chips at 2ghz (or 4.5-5ghz on cpu side).
Caporegime
If you see Gibbo's post, you will see I was right, miners are interested and trying to buy Vega
So your assumption is wrong