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Vega FE benchmarked by random dude

What I get from this, is that the FE is not built for gaming. It's made for game designers and others looking for a powerful GPU for rendering, CAD, and such. It also has a game mode so you can test out your games after creating them in Unigine, UE4, or whatever your game engine of choice is. It is not designed to give the best gaming experience possible, just to let you test your game at a playable frame rate. Also, like many others have said, the drivers are not finished yet, so it stands to reason that they are optimized terribly. Even if it isn't good at gaming, it's not meant to be. It's still a great value for what you get and what it does. 

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I will wait for more reviews, not this "review" with so many issues in testing methodology.

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4 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Not defending OP but the card is meant to be both a professional and gaming card. The only driver available has a full game mode feature.

It is capable of running games, but not at its best capability. 

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Performance looks to be there, given the circumstances of the testing. I just really hope they can get the power consumption down for the gaming versions. That's the only thing that worries me at this point. 

 

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Quotes from the dude with the card, should have added of them to the OP.

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  1. Sorry it took time but never used wattman for those cards

    FireStrike test in game mode (pro mode does not make sense), frequency on GPU all over the place, I am trying to hard set it to 1600 and on the next run, as of now score is not impressive. But colud be my fault.

  2. Guys,

    I need to figure out all of the settings and what to test as I think I am doing random things and I have card for couple of hours. Let me try to get my head around it and I will let you know as soon as possible.

 

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NOOOO, i was hoping it would atleast be on par with the 1080ti. Sniff snifff, no price drop on nvidea side then. Gotta fork over a grand for a christmas present for my girl, gonna hurt.

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Just now, Bcat00 said:

NOOOO, i was hoping it would atleast be on par with the 1080ti. Sniff snifff, no price drop on nvidea side then. Gotta fork over a grand for a christmas present for my girl, gonna hurt.

Most other website said it's around Xp performance..... i wouldn't take this "Review" as baseline 

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Just now, Bcat00 said:

NOOOO, i was hoping it would atleast be on par with the 1080ti. Sniff snifff, no price drop on nvidea side then. Gotta fork over a grand for a christmas present for my girl, gonna hurt.

Wait for the actual gaming versions and better optimized drivers. Also, wait for proper reviews from reputable sources. ;) 

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9 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

What I get from this, is that the FE is not built for gaming. It's made for game designers and others looking for a powerful GPU for rendering, CAD, and such. It also has a game mode so you can test out your games after creating them in Unigine, UE4, or whatever your game engine of choice is. It is not designed to give the best gaming experience possible, just to let you test your game at a playable frame rate. Also, like many others have said, the drivers are not finished yet, so it stands to reason that they are optimized terribly. Even if it isn't good at gaming, it's not meant to be. It's still a great value for what you get and what it does. 

 

5 minutes ago, Its Not Important said:

It is capable of running games, but not at its best capability. 

 

I'm not agreeing with the benchmarks at all, in fact the images are all broken to me and site is blocked(I'm at work) and I would agree with Zando's outlook

 

BUT

 

AMD's marketing on this card is kind of gray, they directly compare it to Titan and they clearly state that for those who just wanna game, turn on GameMode. I don't think that can be interpreted many different ways, but again it could just be marketing.

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1) Videocardz post (Which amazingly links to a WCCFTech post for double the quality)

2) some random dude

3) Undersized PSU

4) Massively out of date and wrong drives (using 17.1.1, current drivers for VE on AMD website are 17.6..)

 

Quality.Post.

 

How about wait for real reviews?

 

Edit: LOL he's saying hes getting odd and unstable frequencies. Wonder it maybe that has to do with the whole wrong drivers and potentially lack of power?

 

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1 minute ago, Brainless906 said:

1) Videocardz post

2) some random dude

3) Undersized PSU

4) Massively out of date and wrong drives (using 17.1.1, current drivers for VE on AMD website are 17.6..)

 

Quality.Post.

 

How about wait for real reviews?

 

Get with it man, it's long standing tradition here to start a riot over the rumor mill and then basically ignore the real benchmarks because by that time they are boring and we're drooling over the next cards to release.

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great reviewed by random dude with weak sauce PSU. Hope that the PSU was a limiting factor. Other than that still looking kinda good (for gaming vega) - not the best but if the price is right its all right. 

GPU drivers giving you a hard time? Try this! (DDU)

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1 minute ago, LukaH said:

great reviewed by random dude with weak sauce PSU. Hope that the PSU was a limiting factor. Other than that still looking kinda good (for gaming vega) - not the best but if the price is right its all right. 

Price tag: $999

 

Hope vega is at least under $600 

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He is not using the Frontier Edition driver 17.20, he is on standard Crimson 17.1.1.

EDIT: 17.6 was recently released.

I don't read the reply to my posts anymore so don't bother.

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honestly I hope this idea of both gaming and workstation card takes off for both companies this should been implemented long ago

 

all cards should be prosumer

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Its Not Important said:

Price tag: $999

 

Hope vega is at least under $600 

It'd be perfect if the big daddy outperformed 1080ti at ~$600

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2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

It'd be perfect if the big daddy outperformed 1080ti at ~$600

That's the dream man.... but it seems a little out of reach 

 

I'm expecting the flagship is almost 1080 ti, mid is around 1080, and low is around 1070 (give or take 5%) the rumour has it that it will be 3 cards series, just like Fury 

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4 minutes ago, Its Not Important said:

That's the dream man.... but it seems a little out of reach 

It looks that way, but I think AMD knows that they're long overdue for a high end gaming card so hopefully they surprise us.

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Just now, TidaLWaveZ said:

It doesn't look that way, but I think AMD knows that they're long overdue for a high end gaming card.

Yeah, lets just hope for the best. I've pushed my PC back for 6 months now, i expect nothing less than GTX 1080 performance 

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21 minutes ago, Brainless906 said:

3) Undersized PSU

 

That PSU is not undersized.  This is all down to driver issues.

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Clearly. (pun not intended) 

 

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14 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Thread cleaned.

 

Personal attacks are not tolerated.

quoting someone and linking something isnt a personal attack

its a discussion

plus he might have something to back up his claims

 

and on topic didnt the furyx have 980 like performance with generic drivers but came closer to the ti after drivers?

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