Who will be getting a Vega card and why?

[silversurfer]

Yes because my 290 is getting old.

because 4870 is getting old lol imagine that speed difference.

In fact the last Nvidia card I owned was a Geforce 256

I had one of those, that is truely ancient history was it 32 or 64meg or even less

Yes, to unlock Synergy Boost mode on my Ryzen

First ive heard of any such thing

 

[DM8104]

I'm running a RX480 4GB with a XL2730Z 1440p monitor. It's handling games ok but I can only aim for 60fps plus a few things turned down. Maybe Medium to High.

I want a Vega card so I can get 100fps+ at high to max settings (I don't use AA). I'm hopeful that Vega can achieve this.

 

[shredgodxp]

I'm running a RX480 4GB with a XL2730Z 1440p monitor. It's handling games ok but I can only aim for 60fps plus a few things turned down. Maybe Medium to High.

I want a Vega card so I can get 100fps+ at high to max settings (I don't use AA). I'm hopeful that Vega can achieve this.

Me too. Pinning my hopes on an AMD card being able to compete with the likes of the 1070 & 1080 (and more) so I can drop the cash on one with a freesync monitor. I flat out refuse to pay a lot extra just for G-Sync.

 

[Apache14]

I will probably replace my R9 290 with the "small" vega, hopefully someone will make a small form factor (nano like) vega card for my mATX case.

I may also buy into RyZEN if the prices / performance are what early leaks are suggesting.

My reasoning for going for vega over current NV offerings are :

1) AMD cards have done very well for me in the past, my 5870 / 7950 are both still going strong in family members systems and my 290 still runs pretty much everything I want (the 290 is my best component purchase in ages)

2) I like AMD and their business model when in comes to technology support. They use adaptive sync (available for any vendor to use) and they open source a lot of their rendering technology for other to use / modifiy in the form of GPU open. Nvidia love vendor tie in and forcing upgrade cycles with their rendering libraries.

3) kinda relates to 2, AMD have very good open source Linux drivers (I use Linux as a development platform every day this is invaluable to me). In fact for polaris they had launch day mainline drivers. Nvidia still don't have pascal support and maxwell open drivers are stuck at boot frequency...

 

[Rannoch]

Ha

Nah Astronomy is my other hobby eating my night time.

Me too, just packed away my scopes for summer.

 

[andybird123]

Me too, just packed away my scopes for summer.

Holy threadnecro batman.