Caporegime
Not as nice as my Vega 64 LC
It is a nice looking card.
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Poll: Will you be buying a Radeon VII?
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Yes, the approved ones (currently a short list) get it enabled by default. For the non-approved ones you have to enable it manually. To be Nvidia approved, monitors have to support a min-max refresh range of 2.4X. So all FreeSync monitors with a narrow refresh range are automatically classed as non-approved. AMD now requires a similar 2.5X range for FreeSync 2 monitors.
Caporegime
Nope. It is basically around the same performance as what I already have plus 4GB extra RAM which will never be used. If it was £500 then it would have made headlines and everyone would have been singing its praises, but it is just too expensive.
Man of Honour
Not the API
And while we are on the subject Mantle and DX12 should help AMD cards at 1080p more than at 2160p, not the other way round.
Soldato
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No i am happy enough with my Vega 64 and tbh i think it's priced to high.
Man of Honour
This is the silliest thing about the memory on the Radeon VII, the bandwidth.
Below is a pic of the memory bandwidth on the RTX Titan overclocked very high and it is nowhere near the figure claimed for the new AMD card, are they really saying it needs that much compared to a much faster NVidia card.
There was a time when AMD delivered exactly what gamers needed.
Man of Honour
I think the Radeon VII will be a good card in the same way as the Vega 56/64 cards have turned out to be.
The reason I am not very keen on the new card is it is more of the same rather than a step forward.
Which is a farce that they implemented just to inflate their numbers, how is the panel not enabling it by default considered to be a failure? Turning on a toggle in the control panel is such a hard thing to do?
Coming from the guy with multiple versions of the same card
More of the same seems to be your thing
Man of Honour
Coming from the guy with multiple versions of the same card
More of the same seems to be your thing
Only if you can get 4 in a PC.
Soldato
I am interested but not 700 bucks interested, especially when I know Navi is coming
This is the silliest thing about the memory on the Radeon VII, the bandwidth.
Below is a pic of the memory bandwidth on the RTX Titan overclocked very high and it is nowhere near the figure claimed for the new AMD card, are they really saying it needs that much compared to a much faster NVidia card.
There was a time when AMD delivered exactly what gamers needed.
This (6912 GFlops/s):
Or that (510 GFlops/s):
Soldato
FP64 is pointless for consumer GPU, it never been used in games. FP64 are useful for GPGPU apps for science, research etc.
Man of Honour
This (6912 GFlops/s):
Or that (510 GFlops/s):
Or Titan V (7450 GFlops/s)
The Titan V has very similar memory bandwidth to the RTX Titan yet it has more FP64 performance than Radeon VII.
Having said that as has been pointed out above FP64 is pointless in games.
No, AMD never intended to give a consumer gaming card that much bandwidth. It all comes back to the fact that it is a salvaged part from failed Instinct Mi60 GPUs. Once the 4 stacks of HBM2 are mounted to the interpose you can't remove them. Therefore you get 16GB VRM with 1TB/S bandwidth, of the whole lot goes in the bin.
If AMD wanted to have a dedicated gaming part they would have stuck to 2 stacks of HBM for 8GB and 512GB/s
Caporegime
Was about to reply to him, but it seems you did it for me. Basically this.
It is not made from the ground up for gamers. No need to be confused
It might end up only being £50 more than what you paid for your 1080 Ti in the end easy, if it performs the same then it will be funny as you are calling this silly, but you went on about your £600 purchase of a 1080 Ti like it was the best deal ever. Lol.AMD trying to be relevant in the gfx arena
Rad 7 is a silly card with silly memory for silly money
Man of Honour
That is not the point.
I only posted the FP64 performance of the Titan V to show how weak your argument was.
Soldato
Nope not buying, The R7 only has 3840 stream processors and the full card has 4096 so they'll probably release a R7+ i.e the full fat thing, 6 months after, Then I'll buy it.
Just a suspicion.
Just a suspicion.
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