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Radeon RX Vega thread

What monitor out of curiosity? I was looking into some but didn't want to shell out $100+ until HDR and HDMI 2.1. I ended up grabbing a Viotek monitor from that MassDrop deal at $399 (32" 2560*1440, 144hz freesync) so I'll be doing a "review" on it when that comes. Meaning I'll just record some stats, color calibration/profile, input lag, pixel response etc. for people interested.

I know they have a 3440*1440p monitor as well. Then there's the predator, and a few Freesync models from Acer and LG I think?

TLDR: Which monitor, how are you liking it?

The Samsung lc34f791wquxen.

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Coming from a 144hz 1440p ASUS PG279Q which was fantastic a high refresh rate was important to me, not even for gaming but just the general windows experience is so much better with a high refresh rate.

So this Samsung is one of the few 3440x1440 monitors with 100hz refresh rate so I picked it. Has freesync as well.

Got it for £650 due to Amazon fucking up twice with my orders so I haven't actually the chance to use it. It will be here tomorrow though thankfully. I can say that aesthetically at least it's beautiful from the one I received without a power cable.
 
The Samsung lc34f791wquxen.



Coming from a 144hz 1440p ASUS PG279Q which was fantastic a high refresh rate was important to me, not even for gaming but just the general windows experience is so much better with a high refresh rate.

So this Samsung is one of the few 3440x1440 monitors with 100hz refresh rate so I picked it. Has freesync as well.

Got it for £650 due to Amazon fucking up twice with my orders so I haven't actually the chance to use it. It will be here tomorrow though thankfully. I can say that aesthetically at least it's beautiful from the one I received without a power cable.

Is this the same monitor that's part of the Vega deal?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1D7JVO/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Looks to be, but with different model number for UK (Assuming you're UK? I feel like yes, as I know we've had a discussion like this before lol)
 
Yes it's that exact one but with the EU model number.

I am from the UK yes :p

Nice, definitely give your feedback after you've had the chance to play around a bit. I have a Samsung KS8000 TV (KS9000 in UK) so I've been really impressed with their VA panels, and color production. A Quantum dot monitor will definitely be nice and that's a really nice price on a monitor like that. As soon as there's a good HDR/HDMI 2.1 monitor or TV that supports PC at 100hz+ I'll probably sell my TV off and upgrade to that. Assuming it's not $2000-3000. Then I'll just wait for an OLED instead lol.

Depends on the rest of your system. The 64's are rated between 300-350w depending on the model. So you could run into problems depending on what you're running. I'd check out something like this

https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator

My suggestion would be to look into a deal on a 750w though. Thermaltake has a 750w semi modular gold for like $50 after rebate.
 
I've been reading up on freesync, and apparently some of the monitors (like the one that's part of the Vega bundle) suffer from flickering issues. Poor implementation or something. (Could be true of some gsync monitors as well)
 
Looking at doing a new build based around Ryzen and Vega.

I noticed they recommend a whopping 1000W PSU for the water cooled variant are we thinking that's really necessary? Not that I'm for certain going to get a water cooled one but I may if the chips fall into place.
 
It worked once and this wasn't because they had magically got extra performance out the gpu, they simply fixed an inherent issue with their drivers. same as when they fixed frame pacing issues after years.

Vega is GCN, and we've not seen massive improvements later on in gpu life since. Don't expect them again either.

So it's a myth that their gpu always benefit from "fine wine" drivers.

I once had 4 grand in my pocket, is a myth to say i always have four grand in my pocket.

Furthermore, if your car didn't run properly for 3 years and they later fixed it and told you how great their cars are because now after 3 years you finally use it properly, would you be praising them and calling it "fine wine" engineering???

PS the word is deluded not diluded
Did they increase the performance over time? Yes. Case closed.
P.S: It's actually "dilute", my native language is Spanish and I was thinking of "diluir". But thanks, I guess?
 
Probably, but it would be cutting it a bit fine for my tastes, particularly if you're running a power hungry CPU and multiple mechanical drives.

I'm running a 4690K, an SSD, and a SSD/HDD Firecuda hybrid. Would be a bummer if I had to add a PSU as an extra expense but I guess it's better to be safe.
 
Did they increase the performance over time? Yes. Case closed.
P.S: It's actually "dilute", my native language is Spanish and I was thinking of "diluir". But thanks, I guess?

So you're going to claim a one off event is the standard then?

On that basis every you can claim pretty anything you like without any need to consider any evidence which is contrary to your claim.

Nvidia also have fine wine then as they released drivers that improved performance once.

Developers release games with fine wine in mind when games have performance issues. Let's celebrate games with crap performance and patches that fix that later.
 
Nothing we haven't really discussed here. But I've always like Adored, even though people here often called him a shill (I always thought he was pretty grounded in his observations) he just put out his video on the Vega release. Seems about right.

https://youtu.be/d7VH2DprHMk

Except for the last bit about price and value. I don't agree. First it won't stay at $399-499 for long. At all, especially if it's good for mining. And second, the power usage needs to be factored in. Against the 1070 though, it seems like a good card.
 
So you're going to claim a one off event is the standard then?

On that basis every you can claim pretty anything you like without any need to consider any evidence which is contrary to your claim.

Nvidia also have fine wine then as they released drivers that improved performance once.

Developers release games with fine wine in mind when games have performance issues. Let's celebrate games with crap performance and patches that fix that later.

You're in denial. Look at 480 performance gap with 1060 around launch on TechPowerUp. Now look at it now. Would get you the links but I can't be arsed.
 
Isn't the Frontier Edition already very slightly outperforming the 1080 though? Since G-sync is so ridiculously expensive I think that would make you for it. The only card that really stomps it is the 1080ti but obviously that'll change next year.

The Vega FE is closer to GTX 1070 in performance than GTX 1080, at least on the air cooler. A water cooled Vega FE was pretty close to a 1080, but at the prices you'd pay for a water cooled Vega FE or RX Vega, you can buy a GTX 1080 Ti that destroys the Vega.

The G-Sync tax is also a bit overstated, it exists but nowadays it's closer to 100-150 bucks as more companies have released high end G-Sync monitors. The likes of Viewsonic have got in the game and their monitors are 2- 300 bucks cheaper than the Acer/Asus ones that were taking the piss on cost.
 
That seems waaay too good to be true.

It really doesn't, all those games favour AMD over NVIDIA. If you look at a review of 580vs1060 you'll see that AMD beats NVIDIA in all those titles by a decent margin, especially if they used the DX12 rendered in BF1. In fact I'd say the results are worse than they should be for Vega 56 to convincingly being the better performer over a 1070 (admittedly drivers should improve performance by a few % pretty soon after release) .
 
Three of those four games have historically favored AMD GPUs (BF1, CoD: IW, Doom). Going to need a bigger range of games before any final judgments from me.

That BF1 lead is quite large though. Hmm.

Probably using the (which at least used to be broken in mp) DX12 renderer and it probably makes the 1070 lose performance.
 
That's a curious number to set your frame limiter to.

It's WTF Tech lol

I'm surprised some people are so desperate they are actually linking to WTF Tech now for any possible scraps of positive news

edit: It's actually Tweaktown but they are actually just as questionable as WCCFTech so my point applies still, maybe doubly so. Know your sources.
 
It's WTF Tech lol

I'm surprised some people are so desperate they are actually linking to WTF Tech now for any possible scraps of positive news

edit: It's actually Tweaktown but they are actually just as questionable as WCCFTech so my point applies still, maybe doubly so. Know your sources.

no i just provided the link and made sure to bold and underline the rumored word because of posters like you
 
That's a curious number to set your frame limiter to.

It doesn't say if it was DX 11 or 12. But I looked up some 1070 bf1 benchmarks at 1440p and most sites show average fps of 90-105. 91 from gamernx and 105 from PCgamer, that's DX11. DX12 is 78.8 from a gamernx bench. So I don't know how they ran their test to get 72 lol
 
no i just provided the link and made sure to bold and underline the rumored word because of posters like you

If people listened to posters like me they would have bought a 1070 or 1080 more than a year ago or a 1080 Ti months ago and enjoyed gaming with the settings and resolution they like instead of waiting a futile year for Vega
 
If people listened to posters like me they would have bought a 1070 or 1080 more than a year ago or a 1080 Ti months ago and enjoyed gaming with the settings and resolution they like instead of waiting a futile year for Vega

if people listened to posters like you they would think async compute has something to do with cpu multithreading
 
If people listened to posters like me they would have bought a 1070 or 1080 more than a year ago or a 1080 Ti months ago and enjoyed gaming with the settings and resolution they like instead of waiting a futile year for Vega

In all honesty you try too hard for no real reason in my book. Let people enjoy what they want. If they felt like waiting for Vega was the better option as they want a cheaper solution, then I say go for it. If they still want to buy Vega, then I say great, AMD can use the funds.

All in all, this whole ordeal and the pricing of Vega makes me think they believe it will be eaten up very quickly (by miners and gamers). If that is the case, I can see why they didn't choose better pricing.

Welp, the wait for Navi and Volta is next. I am not seeing 1080ti as worth it (already have 980ti, I will just wait) especially since I read their next cards will be close to or outdo it. 1180ti, show me what you got.
 
30% faster than a stock 1070 FE in Battlefield 1 (DX12) is reasonable imo:

1.) A highly overclocked GTX 1070 (2050 MHz) is about 20% faster than a 1070 running at stock speeds.
2.) As I already said on the last page; Vega 56 @ 1600 MHz could be as fast as a highly overclocked 1070 running at 2050 MHz, in the first place.
3.)BF1 @ DX12 runs ~10% faster on amd than on nvidia cards. (note: a GTX 1060 @ DX11 is as fast as a RX480 @DX12)

In the end we have a card that outperforms a stock 1070 by 20% on it's own. Add the 10% advantage from running both the bega 56 and 1070 @ DX12 and you get the ~30% gain.
(Note: the gap between the vega 56 and a stock 1070 would probably be just 10% in dx 11 btw, because AMD gpus run ~ 10% worse on BF1 @ dx11 than their nvidia counterparts)
 
It can:
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https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/mixed-precision-programming-cuda-8/

The GP100 chip can't but GP102, 104, 106 and maybe 107 can process Int8 with 4x speed.

I stand corrected.

Both of you are correct though as DP4A/DP2A instruction is available only in CUDA at the moment and as such it cannot be used on Pascals in gaming APIs like DX/VK/OGL. Same is true for Pascal's native FP16 support btw. Gaming Pascal is uniformly FP32.


Judging from the telling selection of benchmarks and the actual fps given I'm going to assume that these numbers are taken from another weird AMD presentation, this time - on Vega 56. Would not pay much attention to them.

Three of those four games have historically favored AMD GPUs (BF1, CoD: IW, Doom). Going to need a bigger range of games before any final judgments from me.

That BF1 lead is quite large though. Hmm.

Four or four actually. Such BF1 lead as well as Civ6 lead are easy to get on DX12 renderer which are simply FUBAR on NV's h/w in both of these games.

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It all depends on what is tested and how. There's zero reason to use DX12 on NV h/w in all of the games listed in this rumor and I bet that this is exactly what was used there.
 
In all honesty you try too hard for no real reason in my book. Let people enjoy what they want. If they felt like waiting for Vega was the better option as they want a cheaper solution, then I say go for it. If they still want to buy Vega, then I say great, AMD can use the funds.

All in all, this whole ordeal and the pricing of Vega makes me think they believe it will be eaten up very quickly (by miners and gamers). If that is the case, I can see why they didn't choose better pricing.

Welp, the wait for Navi and Volta is next. I am not seeing 1080ti as worth it (already have 980ti, I will just wait) especially since I read their next cards will be close to or outdo it. 1180ti, show me what you got.

apparently me sharing a link to rumors is a sign of my massive AMD desperation. hes absurd
 
Judging from the telling selection of benchmarks and the actual fps given I'm going to assume that these numbers are taken from another weird AMD presentation, this time - on Vega 56. Would not pay much attention to them.

not putting stock in anything, just sharing the link i came across. Vega is a massive failure
 
If the 56 sucks I think I'll wait til next year. I doubt I'd be able to find a 56 or 1070 anyway with this mining garbage.
 
I really hope the 56v is good. I haven't used an AMD card since the 5850, how are their drivers these days? Nvidia is really good at getting game ready drivers out early and I never really have any issues with them.
 
If the 56 sucks I think I'll wait til next year. I doubt I'd be able to find a 56 or 1070 anyway with this mining garbage.

Why would it suck? Judging from the flops comparison it should be a little bit above 1070 while being a little bit pricier as well. If for some reason you don't want to buy a 1070 then it will likely be a valid alternative which should probably overclock better than Vega 64 too.
 
I really hope the 56v is good. I haven't used an AMD card since the 5850, how are their drivers these days? Nvidia is really good at getting game ready drivers out early and I never really have any issues with them.

Drivers have improved a lot, adding missing features (ReLive vs Shadowplay) and even more features (Radeon Chill allows to seriously reduce power consumption).

I think on gaf consensus was that last 2 years AMD drivers have been ahead of nvidia's.


It's WTF Tech lol

No, tweaktown leaked it.
 
I really hope the 56v is good. I haven't used an AMD card since the 5850, how are their drivers these days? Nvidia is really good at getting game ready drivers out early and I never really have any issues with them.

Going from a GTX 765m to a RX 480, I get way less crashing and BSODs than on my last card, especially compared against the end of the older card's life.
 
I really hope the 56v is good. I haven't used an AMD card since the 5850, how are their drivers these days? Nvidia is really good at getting game ready drivers out early and I never really have any issues with them.

Their OpenGL drivers are still terrible if that matters to you. If you plan on using PCSX2 for PS2 emulation I'd steer away from AMD as they seem laser focused on OpenGL for accurate emulation.
 
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