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VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!
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Caporegime
When are you expecting more Vega 64 AIO stock Gibbo? It said 28th of August for pre-order but that date has now been and gone.
Caporegime
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 gets faster with Vega 64 BIOS
https://videocardz.com/72299/amd-radeon-rx-vega-56-gets-faster-with-vega-64-bios
https://videocardz.com/72299/amd-radeon-rx-vega-56-gets-faster-with-vega-64-bios
Associate
Why are the ones with 2 free games like £100 over the standard edition or am i missing something?
Caporegime
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They're not 'free'.
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Not meant to sound like a flame post... but why are people buying these when the Nvidia offering is a lot better on performance, noise and power for a similar price?
Freesync.
Because AMD is giving retailers a discount to sell the cheapest ones at that price and this is being done to meet the launch price claim. The normal price it will be sold at is much higher.
To make a more accessible example, relate to supermarket offers where they sell items lower than the usual price, it is down to them having a deal with the supplier that for X amount they get them cheaper and can therefore sell them cheaper.
It has no impact on the regular price.
Just got the email telling me my Vega 56 has been dispatched by OcUK 
but it's not showing on tracking so probably not picked up by the courier yet.
I ordered another Sapphire 56 at the same price from another retailer and that one is awaiting dispatch so hopefully I'll get both before the weekend. While I was on the other retailers site this morning I noticed at the bottom of the page it said other people who bought the Sapphire 56 also bought the PowerColor 56 as well...? So you can only buy one of each, just not more than one of the same?
but it's not showing on tracking so probably not picked up by the courier yet.I ordered another Sapphire 56 at the same price from another retailer and that one is awaiting dispatch so hopefully I'll get both before the weekend. While I was on the other retailers site this morning I noticed at the bottom of the page it said other people who bought the Sapphire 56 also bought the PowerColor 56 as well...? So you can only buy one of each, just not more than one of the same?
Soldato
That didnt take long for someone to try it. I can see Vega 56 being quite popular now.
Associate
I got my card at 2 years and the same day they ship it, became 3 lol
I called my supplier and told me they will reprint the invoice with 3 years
Soldato
Ha ha just about any enthusiast would have guessed the same. AMD really does need to do something about it's shader utilisation.
What can they do? games are more heavily bottlenecked by geometry/pixel performance than shading power, that's why the 56's reduction in shader units doesn't make a blind bit of difference to gaming and why the 1080Ti blows the 64 away.
Associate
I think you're being rather down on AMD here. Vega 56 is as fast or faster than the 1070 in most games, priced the same, has Freesync, and much better compute performance. Power consumption is low enough to not be an issue for most people. The noise is a bummer, though. I bought a 1070 least week, but only because I hate blower coolers. If Vega 56 had shipped with a better cooler I'd have gone for one.
Soldato
Is that a software or hardware thing. The 56 does have some limits fixed in but the lower card will always be the best seller I think, its just a wider market. Most people arent looking to set world records
Whoever you favour, AMD are late fits into every sentence of describing Vega really. They'll have better coolers later, etc. Hopefully they catch up because competition is good for technology advancement
Mostly freesync but also AMD is superior in a few games. Some are just presuming AMD will enhance performance such as the +18% in pubg recently, features are turned off ? who knows tbh. I just wanted to see a new architecture for once, Im not obsessed with perfection it just has to be competent and part of AMD's stated vision. Or they might be spinning a yarn and cant deliver, I dont agree its immediately obvious nvidia is better as they contrast sharply in strategy at times. Any nvidia buyer should probably wait for volta.
Whoever you favour, AMD are late fits into every sentence of describing Vega really. They'll have better coolers later, etc. Hopefully they catch up because competition is good for technology advancement
Freesynce makes AMD a much better value for money option.
All reference cards are hot and noisey, including Nvidia's.
At the moment only AMD offers full DX12 support.
Associate
When DX12 is relevant, Nvidia will have the bases covered.
Soldato
Vulkan also, I'm interested in progress there. We dont want to be on dx11 forever
At least it helps show Vega56's merits in better light. I think some seem to have written off Vega and the V56 simply because some budget/itx 1070 cards (a chip with a years worth of aftermarket variants and price shuffling) can be had for a little bit cheaper (compared to the V56 discounted £379 price).