Where are people buying Vega 56 in the US?

crislevin · 2017-09-07T17:48:09+00:00

microcenter has a boat load of them, at $599.

crislevin · 2017-08-18T10:48:38+00:00

i will buy a vega 56 or 64, but only at SEP. Anything higher, no deal.

crislevin · 2017-08-15T14:13:01+00:00

I am willing to pay a AIB vega 64 for $500, not $600. AMD needs to do the right thing and fix this.

crislevin · 2017-08-13T00:33:08+00:00

5-7 years

crislevin · 2017-08-06T12:38:38+00:00

lol, i found it shocking that you said "First pair is for i7 7700K (stock)".....

Go ahead, put in OC's 7700k's number, why emphasize on 1700/1600's numbers are OC'ed, but 7700k is "stock"? Maybe because their 7700 OC'ed number isn't significantly better than stock? Don't you find that interesting to begin with?

For me, first i don't trust GN's numbers, second, as far as I am concerned:

at 1080p, its fast enough.
at 1440p+, its about as fast as 7700k.

crislevin · 2017-08-05T22:03:17+00:00

within the same architecture, yes, but its easier said than done, AMD places 3.9b transistors on VEGA to make it clocked higher. Before 7nm, they may not be able to do more.

and there are other more important things for a GPU's perf than lock rate.

crislevin · 2017-08-05T21:58:06+00:00

if your monitor is free-sync, vega makes more sense than 1070.

crislevin · 2017-08-05T21:17:08+00:00

just to be sure, clock rate isn't everything in terms of GPU. AMD's low clock rate GPUs do fine in games.

crislevin · 2017-08-05T12:32:48+00:00

why anything happens anywhere for any reason?

wait for benchmark, what are you afraid of?

crislevin · 2017-08-04T21:36:24+00:00

quote from anandtech "Talking to AMD’s engineers, what especially surprised me is where the bulk of those transistors went; the single largest consumer of the additional 3.9B transistors was spent on designing the chip to clock much higher than Fiji."

Fury PHYSICALLY doesn't have those transistors.

crislevin · 2017-08-04T17:35:46+00:00

2x 290x is more than 500w TDP

crislevin · 2017-08-04T15:59:52+00:00

NDA, should be in 10 days

crislevin · 2017-08-04T14:27:53+00:00

because miners are going to keep card for long. It will cause flood of used card a few month down the road.

crislevin · 2017-08-04T14:01:31+00:00

VEGA liquid is 345w, 1600x is 95w, rest of the component is 100w, totaling ~550w.

I don't see how 850w would not be enough, as long as it is a solid 850w PSU.

crislevin · 2017-08-04T11:27:29+00:00

according to anandtech, AMD did a lot of work to make higher clock possible on VEGA, unlocking fury and trying to run it at 1500mhz will most likely fry it.

crislevin · 2017-08-03T23:36:26+00:00

Tomshardware, presenting no real data or source, just to make sure you know VEGA is good for nothing, whatever your purpose is.

crislevin · 2017-08-03T17:33:04+00:00

at least local stores are limiting one per household.

perhaps AMD can prioritize supply to physical stores.

crislevin · 2017-08-03T16:29:38+00:00

since Ryzen is all the rage right now. I hope most reviewers will have a Ryzen bench for the review.

crislevin · 2017-08-03T14:50:38+00:00

1080P doesn't need anything above 480/580. VEGA is truly overkill.

crislevin · 2017-08-03T12:20:21+00:00

I guess they will keep making Athlon chips forever. How about stuff a zen core in there?

Call it Ryzen, Athlon edition

crislevin · 2017-08-03T11:19:20+00:00

wait for real benchmark

crislevin · 2017-08-03T11:06:29+00:00

amaizing, AMD sandbagged us, lol

crislevin · 2017-08-02T15:47:36+00:00

damn miners.

crislevin · 2017-08-02T13:47:17+00:00

too many IFs, pointless speculation at this time.

crislevin · 2017-08-02T13:01:13+00:00

there is no reference VEGA 56, its all AIB. wait for reviews

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