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A forum post from Dutch tech site Tweakers has some important info about rx vega. The reply was from MSI marketing director where they said rx vega consumes a lot of power. Their current  FE card for reference, uses 300w for air cool and 375w for liquid cooling.

 

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I’ve seen the specs of Vega RX. It needs a damn lot of power. We’re working on it, which is a start so launch is coming closer :)

 

 

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https://videocardz.com/70465/msi-damn-rx-vega-needs-a-lot-of-power#disqus_thread

 

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Just as i thought AMD were getting more power efficient. Guess not.

 

Either that or its one beast of a card.

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2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Just as i thought AMD were getting more power efficient. Guess not.

 

Either that or its one beast of a card.

OR the 375 watt card is the dual gpu card. and the 300 watt card is the single gpu card. 

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1 minute ago, marldorthegreat said:

OR the 375 watt card is the dual gpu card. and the 300 watt card is the single gpu card. 

I think going from single to a dual gpu card would add more than 75 watts.

 

And even then, the 1080ti's rated power is only 250 watt, so like i said, it'd have to be a beast of a card.

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When is Vega launching again? Wasn't in Q2, which is practically over?

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1 minute ago, RKRiley said:

I think going from single to a dual gpu card would add more than 75 watts.

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2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

I think going from single to a dual gpu card would add more than 75 watts.

 

And even then, the 1080ti's rated power is only 250 watt, so like i said, it'd have to be a beast of a card.

The dual gpu will have lower clockspeeds. compare the fury x to the fury nano,by lowering clock speeds a  power consumption drops quite a bit. 275 ---> 175. 

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5 minutes ago, Bcat00 said:

Sheesh, AMD might as well turn their company logo into a burning flame, always with the overheating chips.

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19 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

A forum post from Dutch tech site Tweakers has some important info about rx vega. The reply was from MSI marketing director where they said rx vega consumes a lot of power. Their current  FE card for reference, uses 300w for air cool and 375w for liquid cooling.

 

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https://videocardz.com/70465/msi-damn-rx-vega-needs-a-lot-of-power#disqus_thread

 

Mind adding the rest of the quote form the chap?
https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/51654713#51654713
 

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Someone replied:

That aint a positive sign.

To which he replied:

That depends on the level of performance you get :-)

 

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9 minutes ago, marldorthegreat said:

OR the 375 watt card is the dual gpu card. and the 300 watt card is the single gpu card. 

hold your horses my dude

quote from the website thats for amd frontier you know their super expensive vega cards that are supposed to compete with nvidia equivalent(I cant remember at the moment)

"As for the power consumption, I don’t think anyone expected it to be lower than Frontier’s, which has a board power of 300W (air-cooled) or 375W (liquid edition)."

 

here a link to amd frontier

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12 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

When is Vega launching again? Wasn't in Q2, which is practically over?

i think after SIGGRAPH 

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13 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

When is Vega launching again? Wasn't in Q2, which is practically over?

Vega Instinct has launched, and Frontier Edition is due 27th of June. So Vega made Q2.

Sadly that doesn't include gaming Vega; which is due Siggraph, end of July.

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Well let's do some paper napkin calculation:

  • RX 580 does 5.792 TFLOPS FP32 and is rated at 185W TDP
  • Vega FE does 13 TFLOPS F32

Something's gotta double here.

 

Though I guess Titan Xp doing 11 TFLOPS FP32 at 250W TDP doesn't paint it a rosey picture. But at the same time, AMD could be overestimating TDP.

 

And the AIO cooler adding 75W TDP makes me think they're using TDP wrong. Unless the AIO cooler actually has better performance.

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14 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

When is Vega launching again? Wasn't in Q2, which is practically over?

Technically vega has been launched just not the version we were hoping for

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So...

 

Vega is coming in HOT?

 

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As soon as they turned their "hot" image around, they threw it into the proverbial, and possibly literal, furnace. 

 

At least we know that they'll have water-cooled cards for those extra 20 seconds of "it's a cool card" that others are dreaming of. 

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2 minutes ago, VagabondWraith said:

So...

 

Vega is coming in HOT?

 

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40 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Just as i thought AMD were getting more power efficient. Guess not.

 

Either that or its one beast of a card.

The guy only said Vega uses a lot of power. But didn't specific how much. Then people jump straight in to speculation 300w and 375w as their Frontier card????

 

Apple IMac Pro will have Vega inside. If it's 300w TDP. I have no idea how could Apple keep it from overheating with that limited cooling of the IMac.

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12 minutes ago, Deli said:

The guy only said Vega uses a lot of power. But didn't specific how much. Then people jump straight in to speculation 300w and 375w as their Frontier card????

 

Apple IMac Pro will have Vega inside. If it's 300w TDP. I have no idea how could Apple keep it from overheating with that limited cooling of the IMac.

downclocking to shit, and a lot of thermal throttling.

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39 minutes ago, XenosTech said:

Technically vega has been launched just not the version we were hoping for

only vega frontier edition

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1 minute ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

downclocking to shit, and a lot of thermal throttling.

Apple quotes 11 TFLOPS for the iMac Pro GPU. If rumors is correct, that Vega has 4096 stream processors. It will make it runs at about 1342MHz.

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6 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

only vega frontier edition

still vega

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