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Who will be getting a Vega card and why?

melmac;30490592 said:
I don't see downside to Nvidia supporting adaptive sync. Look how many people haven't bought Nvidia cards because they have a freesync monitor?

They could still have a premium brand of monitors with their Gsync module.
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At the moment Nvidia's in a commanding position and probably don't see the need to support it but if over the next year or two AMD managed to turn the tables weakening Nvidia's position or more and more people buy freesync capable monitors and then lean to the red side they'll soon adopt freesync, like Old Gamer said if they supported freesync now I'd have a 1080 in my rig.
 
nashathedog;30489438 said:
That's true but what niggles me is that Nvidia must have known it could be done via the open standard but chose to go with it as a closed feature which holds a pretty big premium. I know they're about making money but there's a ruthlessness to how they do it.
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Just remember that Freesync is now identical to G-sync. The only thing holding it back was the lack of windowed (borderless) support, so now that it indeed has it, it's completely identical to G-Sync.

In fact I'd go so far as to say it's superior, since you get to choose from so many more monitors, the monitors are far cheaper and have much more connectivity options on them.

I own both implementations (I have both a Freesync and Gsync monitor, along with a G-sync laptop) and cannot tell the difference between them. Take from that what you will :)
 
Gregster;30490649 said:
Indeed - Asus have the ROG branding, so NVidia could call the Adaptive Sync something else and refer to G-Sync as the premium brand if they so wished. Tom Peterson did say "Never say never" when asked about supporting Adaptive Sync.
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Thats something that confuses the situation, Retailers such as OCUK promote Asus's freesync Dominator monitor as a ROG monitor but it isn't, with Acer they promote the freesync models as being there premium Predator models but there not they're just plain Acer monitors, While the G-sync variants hold these names none of the Freesync ones do, so it seems Nvidia already have there premium G sync branding in place?
 
Dave2150;30491598 said:
Just remember that Freesync is now identical to G-sync. The only thing holding it back was the lack of windowed (borderless) support, so now that it indeed has it, it's completely identical to G-Sync.

In fact I'd go so far as to say it's superior, since you get to choose from so many more monitors, the monitors are far cheaper and have much more connectivity options on them.

I own both implementations (I have both a Freesync and Gsync monitor, along with a G-sync laptop) and cannot tell the difference between them. Take from that what you will :)
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It's no different as long as you buy a decent freesync panel, There are bad ones out there (I'm talking about working ranges as G-sync simply work with whatever the panel can do, you don't get 40 or 50 hz minimums like you do with some freesync monitors).
 
I will be getting the best vega i can for about the £600 mark, having a 1440p 144Hz monitor the fury-x can sometimes feel like it needs a bit more power in AAA games with everything turned up.
 
I may get a VEGA GPU depending on what NVidia do as well. Ultimately I want the best performance for the least price just like every consumer :-) I'm also slightly annoyed by being tied in to Gsync with my monitor. I feel NVidia are being a bit like apple in that respect. Freesync seems great though and I'll change my monitor if I have to but waiting to see what HDR monitors are on offer before I jump.
 
Aurhinius;30491683 said:
I may get a VEGA GPU depending on what NVidia do as well. Ultimately I want the best performance for the least price just like every consumer :-) I'm also slightly annoyed by being tied in to Gsync with my monitor. I feel NVidia are being a bit like apple in that respect. Freesync seems great though and I'll change my monitor if I have to but waiting to see what HDR monitors are on offer before I jump.
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I don't expect HDR monitors to be cheap at all, in fact the prices may be much higher than expected. Selling your first born may not be enough!

The sweet spot right now, in my opinion is 1440p and we do have the cards to power it properly.

All this is assuming you don't already have one a 1440p monitor :)
 
Woke up to a message this morning and pit smiles across my face before my son #$$& himself and needed nappy changing for the realisation it'll be a long time before o personally own my own, least its not that long :D
 
JediFragger;30491801 said:
I'm considering a 2nd Fury. I need help :(
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Then everyone would have a new Vega card and you'd be stuck on poopy old tech that never works :p . Could end up like I did when I got my x1900 crossfire card and weeks later the 8800gtx came out.
 
Most probably will take the plunge and buy one along with a decent 1440p 144hz freesync monitor to go with it. Bonus gets paid start of April and I need to spend it before I have to start being an Adult and saving for a wedding.
 
Gregster;30490649 said:
Yer, not something I agree with or disagree with in truth. You might well be right and no idea but NVidia did have it out a year in advance of AMD and I jumped on the ROG Swift at a very high price of £7xx with the assumption of "if I don't see this amazing tech work, I am sending it back".... Roll on a few years and I am still using the ROG Swift, so for me it was well worth it. If AMD did come up with it first, then really they should have been quicker. I do remember them showing off at one of the big shows a Freesync panel that was capable of running Adaptive Sync but not sure if it was before GSync was released or not.
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Sorry for my long post :) I was very interested in Variable refresh rate from the moment I heard about it. I still believe it's one of the best advancements in monitor tech. And it's great to see that it's been brought to TV's as well through HDMI. No more motion problems with Movies.

And, yes, while AMD are so slow sometimes, it's probably wrong to put all the blame on them for the delay in getting adaptive sync monitors to the market. They were at the mercy of VESA for certification. Remember the DP 1.2a certification that was meant to arrive in February, didn't get released until June that year.

Yeah AMD did a demo in January, it was cringe worthy stuff :D They would have been better off waiting a few months and getting a good demo out.
 
Saving up for a nice ultrawide monitor at the moment, and the performance of Vega vs Nvidia's response would pretty much dictate what monitor I get, so definitely excited to see what comes out of AMD.
 
After two AMD cards I went for a 1080 this time. I don't expect to change it for a while, unless of course Vega is much much faster :D
 
I need a new GPU as the VRAM limitation and spotty crossfire support of the 295x2 is starting to get annoying. I have my fingers crossed that Vega has decent performance at the right price. If Ryzen is also as good as I hope I might just do a whole new build.
 
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