Great review, however ... Vega ? Thanks AMD, but I'll keep my 2ghz gtx1080, may it last without burning for a long time. Amen.
1.7x (!!) higher TDP than 1080 and performing similarly. Ouch... If NVidia drops prices these will sit in shelves indefinitely, especially if because of expensive HBM they can't follow. Though I'm not sure if NVidia has to.
Yeah uh... your OC'd 1080 likely uses more power than a Vega 64... I looked up power consumption of a ~2GHz 1080 and the peak wattage is not pretty (albeit, the average is ok). It's one thing to prefer an OC'd 1080 for the hefty performance increase, but you decided to bring up heat.
The normal V64 model is 699,99 Euro (and so more expensive than GTX1080: 619 to 649 Euro) and the liquid one touch the price of the cheapest Ti at way over 700 Euro... Without price drop i don't see future exept for BTC or Eth...
700€??? How the hell Vega64 went from 499,99€ to 699,99€??? For that kind of price even miners are going to think twice about getting one.... As for gamers, it seems they are out of luck... Unless they really like or need AMD gpus...
Based on this review I don't think I would buy a Vega 64 over a GTX 1080.... now if some nice AIB coolers come along at the same price range and the OC issue gets sorted out with a driver update and I played mostly games that favor AMD, then I'd give it some fair consideration.... I do think that the Vega 56 is a nice winner over the GTX 1070 and that would be an appealing grab (esp if it comes with the 2 free games).
True, but it's also significantly faster. But that's not the point here... but the fact that I had that card (like everyone else that bought them before)... for ALMOST AN YEAR. And now AMD comes up with this thing that "barely" manages to equal a FE (which is 20% slower than the factory oc'ed models... like mine) Hopefully all that money coming from all the miners will help them get Navi to a point that they will actually be competitive with NV, because Vega... is not. It's just a "I'm here too, please notice me !" product.
After reading the review (great job btw HH!) and my UK prices, I must admit that the GTX1080ti looks great. If I had to upgrade today and money wasn't an issue, the choice would be easy...
I can't help myself because nobody said it yet, let's (re)start the AMD hype train: "Waiting for Navi!" LOOOOOL
Not even close. Powerlimit is 238w on the 1080 whereas a OCd V64 can hit 500w Even my ti @ 2100mhz uses only 330~ watts Hopefully by then Pascal will have competition lol
Yeah, but, Ryzen+Vega+Freesync monitor is a decent proposition for a gamer who doesn't need the best.
So far I play a few games with Enhanced Sync with Freesync in 21:9 (2560x1080@75hz) with RX Vega, it's freaking great. as soon you get pass 75fps, Enhanced Sync turn on nothing but smoothness on the screen with no tearing. Was RX Vega worth it, hell yes I only paid ($306 with taxes for it) due of I sold my RX 480 for $365. I don't care what people say, jumping from a RX 480 to a RX Vega is a big jump even if it's on pair with a 1080 which is still great, RX Vega will get better as FineWine drivers come to play.
I think you need to take a chill pill, what an uncalled for sh1t post. Way to be an asshat. Since clearly you are lacking in cognitive abilities let me help you. Intel is clearly faster for games, using threadripper on any games will invalidate the rest of the results and will create a CPU bottleneck, especially 1080P. Not once has AMD cards magically performed better on and AMD platform vs Intel platform. Not a single game in that benchmark suite is single threaded, so clearly you are talking out of your ass. Pro tip, don't like the reviews on this website, leave. Nobody will give a sh1t about a dickhead leaving.
Yeah! 14nm strikes again as on RYZEN, over some clocks needs much voltage and this generates higher Power draw but "PwrSave" mode is'nt bad, still on GTX1080 Performance Range with less Power than VEGA 56 (Surprisly) i hope it evolves well with Next drivers, custom BIOS and Phases... But they needs optimize its 14nm on CPU and GPU to improve clocks
AMD have never recommended which CPUs to be used as that would clearly put them at a disadvantage @ 1080p. See the damn ryzen and thread-ripper reviews dude... Now if your implying vega is special and with threadripper will see a big performance jump vs non-vega cards, that would be interesting. Source? Can you point out a single ref, link or marketing fluff that even remotely points to that?
Power consummation like vacuum cleaner, but everybody would be fine.. Card has on paper 210W and in reality, but 235W, but its ok. Its adoration no review..
