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VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!

mmj_uk said:
It would have been a more relevenat comparison if it was Vega 64 Air vs 1080 and in more than just AMD orientated games, anyone who buys Vega 64 AIO over a 1080Ti needs their heads checking.
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If your getting into PC gaming there is an argument to go with Vega 64 over a 1080ti and that is a Vega 64 with a freesync screen is a lot cheaper then a 1080Ti with an equivalent Gsync screen.
 
Freddie1980 said:
If your getting into PC gaming there is an argument to go with Vega 64 over a 1080ti and that is a Vega 64 with a freesync screen is a lot cheaper then a 1080Ti with an equivalent Gsync screen.
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See people keep saying this about Gsync vs Freesync. You buy a monitor in your price range. That way whether it be FreeSync or Gsync it's the same cost. Thats what I did. My range was £500-600 so whether I went 1080 (did) or Vega 64 (did not) then my new monitor would have cost the same.
 
Freddie1980 said:
If your getting into PC gaming there is an argument to go with Vega 64 over a 1080ti and that is a Vega 64 with a freesync screen is a lot cheaper then a 1080Ti with an equivalent Gsync screen.
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It's also a lot cheaper to buy a Ford KA than a Tesla.

When Vega 64 goes to it's £550 price, a 1080 (not Ti) and a GSync screen will be about the same price as a Vega 64 and a Freesync screen.
 
beany_bot said:
I notice that the banner background on the shop site have already gone back to Threadripper from Vega. Bit soon? Maybe at £550 there is not much point pushing them.
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Think like a business, would you rather push the stock in your warehouse sitting on a shelf that you own and have potentially paid for.
Or would you rather push a product you have no stock off with an unknown ETA for more arriving.

So of course as a business we push what is in stock and right now Threadripper is in stock and is something pretty amazing to the point were nearly selling 20 of them per day, which may not sound a lot but trust me that is a huge amount when it comes to a CPU costing £1000 :)
 
Gibbo said:
Think like a business, would you rather push the stock in your warehouse sitting on a shelf that you own and have potentially paid for.
Or would you rather push a product you have no stock off with an unknown ETA for more arriving.

So of course as a business we push what is in stock and right now Threadripper is in stock and is something pretty amazing to the point were nearly selling 20 of them per day, which may not sound a lot but trust me that is a huge amount when it comes to a CPU costing £1000 :)
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Totally makes sense. I thought you had a load of vega64 sitting at £550. Didnt realise sold out.
 
opethdisciple said:
See people keep saying this about Gsync vs Freesync. You buy a monitor in your price range. That way whether it be FreeSync or Gsync it's the same cost. Thats what I did.
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Yes, but, if you had decided to go Freesync, you could have got a monitor just as good as the Dell for way less money. And, besides, you didn't make the decision based on the cost of the monitor, you made it based on the graphics card you were going to buy.

You paid over £900 for a second hand 1080 and a new 1440p high refresh rate Gsync monitor. You could have bought a new Vega 64 at £550, with the two free games, and got a highly rated 1440p high refresh rate Freesync monitor for just under £900.

I am not discussing the pros and cons of each graphics card, just highlighting the difference the freesync/gsync price makes.

Also, I am not saying you made a wrong choice or anything like that.
 
Gibbo said:
Think like a business, would you rather push the stock in your warehouse sitting on a shelf that you own and have potentially paid for.
Or would you rather push a product you have no stock off with an unknown ETA for more arriving.
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Try offering a pre-order purchase of Vega 64 at £449 and see many orders you get piling in!
 
humbug said:
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?

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So why was this thread merged with this one? the above post wich was the original thread has nothing to do with this one, its completely off topic in here.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 chips differ - physically and quite significantly

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/am...iffer_physically_and_quite_significantly.html
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The die fabrication is done by Global Foundaries. But using HBM requires complex integration and mounting on the interposer. Remember with Fiji AMD had a lot of difficulties and that contributed to lower yields and availability.
what may be happening here is that 2 different companies are mounting the die and HBM to the interposer.

The downsides with HBM is you gave 1 company making theemory, another fabbing your GPU, another making the interposer, and another mounting components to the interposer, and then the interposer with GPU + HBM gets shipped on to the card manufacturer. With GDDR the card manufacturer gets the memory chips and GPU dies, and mounts them to the PCB themselves.
 
melmac said:
Yes, but, if you had decided to go Freesync, you could have got a monitor just as good as the Dell for way less money. And, besides, you didn't make the decision based on the cost of the monitor, you made it based on the graphics card you were going to buy.

You paid over £900 for a second hand 1080 and a new 1440p high refresh rate Gsync monitor. You could have bought a new Vega 64 at £550, with the two free games, and got a highly rated 1440p high refresh rate Freesync monitor for just under £900.

I am not discussing the pros and cons of each graphics card, just highlighting the difference the freesync/gsync price makes.

Also, I am not saying you made a wrong choice or anything like that.
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The monitor will last a long time though, so the cost gets amortized through multiple GPU upgrades. When Volta comes around there will be a good and affordable upgrade path that will make use of the gsync screen. With AMD so late there wont be a volta competitor for a long time.
 
erazor51 said:
lol so much for trying to sell for a profit! I could have enjoyed that card for £639, tut!
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So 660 minus ebay's £66 fees and then minus the 3.5% Paypal charge and then at least £10 to post to the buyer and you're looking at £563 take-home. So unless this was bought at £450 you're looking at a measly profit or none at all.
 
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