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

eddyr said:
They kinda did to a degree, for a while. Tahiti (7970) and Hawaii(290X) for example had pitcairn (7870) and tonga (285), respectively. Smaller dies (with no double precision) to the larger sibling. Nvidia went bigger sooner with its fp64 and fp32 dies (security from HPC contracts and larger market in any event) while AMD were somewhat conservative in the first fp64/fp32 round (Tahiti and pitcairn) which helped them get to market sooner, only producing what you could call the equivalent to the GK 110 (780) and GK 104 (680) later with Hawaii and tonga which also approximated the performance of the Nvidia like-for-like counterparts.

Since then its Nvidia committing further to the co-development of two lines (Volta GV100 with DP and specialist hardware like its tensor cores, and a scaled-back single precision line for consumer graphics and industry/professional use that doesn't require fp64). AMD haven't brought out a fresh fp64 chip since Hawaii and Vega is actually out fp64'd by Tahiti let alone Hawaii.
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Wow, good info to know. Thanks.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
It seemed Miners did not cared about RX Vega 64 poor mining performance but regardless no matter how overpriced RX Vega cards are, miners still buy all RX Vega 56 and RX Vega 64 cards when RX 580 are not in stocks.

A guy called Hollie in UK bought 10 RX Vega 64 cards to use for mining at 1,122 MH/s consumed 5500W.


Hollie probably bought all cards from OCUK or ebay with all cards sold all traced back to retailer OCUK.

Unfortunately RX Vega price will be very high just like RX 580 for very long time probably through to the end of 2017 and possible through 2018 too.
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How do people manage to force themselves to watch these "vlogs"? I lasted about 30 seconds at which point he started talking about his baby's due date. I don't GAF, random internet stranger.

These vloggers really do think they're some kind of internet celebrities don't they. Plus his hyped up demeanour was super annoying.

Ugh.
 
FoxEye said:
How do people manage to force themselves to watch these "vlogs"? I lasted about 30 seconds at which point he started talking about his baby's due date. I don't GAF, random internet stranger.

These vloggers really do think they're some kind of internet celebrities don't they. Plus his hyped up demeanour was super annoying.

Ugh.
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Hahaha. First time I have seen that vlogger and I was thinking the exact same. Turned it off after a few minutes.

Maybe his audience really likes it.
 
FoxEye said:
How do people manage to force themselves to watch these "vlogs"? I lasted about 30 seconds at which point he started talking about his baby's due date. I don't GAF, random internet stranger.

These vloggers really do think they're some kind of internet celebrities don't they. Plus his hyped up demeanour was super annoying.

Ugh.
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Some are actually OK. I enjoy Caisey Neinstats vlogs.
 
FoxEye said:
How do people manage to force themselves to watch these "vlogs"? I lasted about 30 seconds at which point he started talking about his baby's due date. I don't GAF, random internet stranger.

These vloggers really do think they're some kind of internet celebrities don't they. Plus his hyped up demeanour was super annoying.

Ugh.
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Agreed. That and calling his 'wallpaper' his 'screen saver' did it for me. Annoys me no end that one.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
I don't think they will, gamings secondary to them now, Nvidia have em beat.
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I still think that in the gaming space, with the rise of the new 4k consoles that they will be nVidia's new competition and not AMD (although AMD will be providing the guts of them). I'm hoping so, because it will at least temper nVidia's pricing somewhat (because AMD certainly aren't helping with just matching what nVidia put out! Can't blame them though, they make v v little on their GPU business).
 
Anyone know what the improvement would be from a stock RX480 to Vega 56? I have gone from 1080p 60hz to 1440p 144hz Freesync since I bought the 480 and even though it does *ok* I would like better performance. I'm thinking of trying to grab one at the launch price and don't mind a blower card.
 
Narrack said:
Anyone know what the improvement would be from a stock RX480 to Vega 56? I have gone from 1080p 60hz to 1440p 144hz Freesync since I bought the 480 and even though it does *ok* I would like better performance. I'm thinking of trying to grab one at the launch price and don't mind a blower card.
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I would grab a 56 at launch price and then auction off the 480, won't cost you a great deal that way.
 
Narrack said:
Anyone know what the improvement would be from a stock RX480 to Vega 56? I have gone from 1080p 60hz to 1440p 144hz Freesync since I bought the 480 and even though it does *ok* I would like better performance. I'm thinking of trying to grab one at the launch price and don't mind a blower card.
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32 game benchmark including the vega 56. Steve use's an RX 580 not a 480 but shouldn't be too much in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfLuJajkwcY
 
Narrack said:
Anyone know what the improvement would be from a stock RX480 to Vega 56? I have gone from 1080p 60hz to 1440p 144hz Freesync since I bought the 480 and even though it does *ok* I would like better performance. I'm thinking of trying to grab one at the launch price and don't mind a blower card.
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I would, a 1440p freesync and vega 56 will be a nice combo
 
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