AMD drops price on Radeon RX Vega 56 to Battle GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    But will novidia drop prices on GTX1070?
     
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    A Vega 56 with Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5 and Tom Clancy's The Division 2 for £249 / €285??

    If that isn't an awesome deal, I don't know what is...
     
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    A very bad sign. if Navi was close they wouldn't have done that...
     

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    True, but if reduced some competition and price pressure. Will be interesting to see 1660 results and prices. I need to upgrade from 970 and price point has been too high up to now. Been waiting forever it seems =, shame navi looks like late summer.
     
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    I think that's a good move, Vega 56 is a nice card with nice performance for those who look to upgrade from older generations like 290X - like in my case. Maybe Vega 64 will see a price drop also sometime soon, who knows. I'm looking to buy one of them so hoping this price cut will take effect in my region...
     
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    Just curious: with 285 EUR price of Vega56, which is near 1070Ti performance-wise, and having a 3 AAA game bundle, what makes you between the Vega56 and the 1660, which will probably have ZERO game bundled (or maybe a choice of BFV/Anthem, but I'm unsure about that).
     
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    I can tell you why I will never get a Vega GPU. 2 things: Noise and heat.
    the Vega cards are well known to be extremely loud and produce quite a lot of heat. not something I would want even if the performance is solid.
     
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    They'll just drop the 1070 entirely =p
     
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    ^ Agree, the 1660 replaces it.

    @HardwareCaps - Undervolting the Vega 56/64 (and not buying a reference card) helps out with noise a lot.
     
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    Or you can get reference card and get a water block and get rid of heat and noise :)
     
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    And destroy the price/performance of the card in the process!

    To buy a Vega 56 + a custom water loop for it, it will be better buying a more performing card with the same money.
     
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    For me in summary at the time the 970 was the nearly perfect card, apart from it's 3.5GB memory. No perfect card now, as people mention VEGA is a bit hot and power hungry, but has a good bundle and price. We will have to see what 1660 is like and price.

    I was hoping for Navi to be the perfect card, not sure I can wait another 6 months. Maybe the 7nm nvidia mainstream will be best. I am just getting to be tired of waiting. The 970 has lasted well, still just about good enough at the 2560x1600 I use. It gets Crysis at 60fps ! :p Far Cry 5 suffers though a bit. It's had a good run though.

    I am neutral when it comes to nvidia or amd, just looking for a product that suits me. I am not mega rich and only play 2/3 hours per week, so just an average buyer.
     
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    Thats a geat deal indeed. Now rx590 also needs a drop in price to match a 1660 non ti.
     
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    Based upon my experience, the Vega 56 is neither hot nor loud, even with the Reference model. (I own one flashed with the Vega 64 bios.)
     
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    Last info said September or October for Navi.
    They also need to get rid of Vega stock, so it's just normal.
     
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    After the "info" about October came another one with talked about July. so I'm not sure.
    if October rumor is true, it's a massive blow, AMD promised Navi on H2 of 2019.
     
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    October is in the second half of 2019....
     
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    Wow 285 euro. In Romania even the cheapest used one is 330. New, if you can find the one is more like 450 euro sadly.
     
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    Navi was actually originally a 2018 product.... they delayed it a couple of time already...
     
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