Vega shock

[linustouchtips]

So the leaks of a vega card has gone around for a benchmark. I ran over to guru3d for a look not to good just barely getting by a 1070. Lots of speculation is suggesting it is possibly a lower end vega meant to compete with the 1070 or a engineering sample. Should there be concern for the folks who are overhyped for these cards. The comments is here are the usual green vs red hilarity. I'm kind of hyped for it but if it doesn't blow my 1080 out of the water they ain't getting my sale.

 

guru3d: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/possible-radeon-rx-vega-3dmark-time-spy-benchmark-result.html

 

[rn8686]

As you said, it may be small Vega and the drivers are not optimised yet for it (Nor are the games). Cant really tell performance yet until release. Also I think they did a demo a while ago in doom 4k showing it beating a 1080 (Not 1080ti though now). 

 

 

[DarkBlade2117]

7 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

As you said, it may be small Vega and the drivers are not optimised yet for it (Nor are the games). Cant really tell performance yet until release. Also I think they did a demo a while ago in doom 4k showing it beating a 1080 (Not 1080ti though now). 

 

 

The one that has been beating a 1080 will more than likely be at the price of a 1070. If it isn't AMD has a stick up their ass

[Hunter-97-G]

As Guru3D is reporting, the code for this unknown card is 687F:C1, which is exactly the one AMD showed us running Doom, and also the one from leaked Ashes benchmarks.

 

Now, I don't believe AMD would've gone to an event to show the lower tier model. This is almost surely the full VEGA 10, now the only question is whether or not the final retail units will run at 1200 Mhz or higher, and how good the overclocking is. If it is 1200, then it's a huge let down since it can't even outperform the 1080 like this.

[F7GOS]

I thought we already knew this was an Engineering sample, on Fiji Islands drivers too?

It all depends the pricing I guess, if it comes close to 1080 performance at $300 say its still a winner imo, not the halo card we hoped for sure.

I would be very surprised if this was final performance though.... 

AMD already has basically a 480X2 in its Radeon Pro line up, so if Vega was not going the be a thing, then I would have expected them to hit the market with a 580X2 called a 590 or something similar.

 

 

[Vode]

Remember the 800Mhz clocked Polaris 10 sample? Most likely not final clockspeed, it kind of has to beat the GTX 1080 otherwise it will be a train on fire.

 

Don't expect GTX 1080Ti levels of performance nor price...

[F7GOS]

 

Almost 12 TFlops of GPU power there, based on the Polaris 10 Architecture...

IMO, if Vega was set to flop, this card would have been pushed out with the rest of the RX 5xx lineup as the Rx 590

[Morgan Everett]

It probably won't flop, but it won't meet the fantastical expectations of some.

 

As for that card, AMD wouldn't give it the RX 590 moniker, since it isn't aimed at gamers.

[xAcid9]

Vega arch is amazing, hopefully AMD driver team capable to unleash most if not all of it capability at launch.

[Biggerboot]

To me it's ok if Vega doesn't directly compete with Nvidia's top-of-the-line, as long as it competes well at the price point.  The pricing on the 1080/1080ti is more fair than the 1070, so a bit of competition at that level helps.  It may not have been to AMD's liking, but the consumer will still see some benefit.

[xAcid9]

2 minutes ago, Biggerboot said:

To me it's ok if Vega doesn't directly compete with Nvidia's top-of-the-line..

But it's bad for AMD's image imo. 

[Biggerboot]

6 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

But it's bad for AMD image imo. 

That's a matter of opinion (as you said).  It would be nice if two companies were making 1080ti's, but for market share they can still become relevant again.   It's almost the same strategy with Ryzen.

[AntonChigurh]

4 hours ago, F7GOS said:

IMO, if Vega was set to flop, this card would have been pushed out with the rest of the RX 5xx lineup as the Rx 590

It's not gonna flop, it's just not gonna be the 1080ti killer everyone is so overhyped about